Here is a list of large companies demanding the return of employees to the office

With the easing of COVID-19 related restrictions, many companies are calling their employees back to the office.

Some executives and leaders find that productivity increases when employees are in the office together, while others hope to increase personal collaboration. Some employers go to extreme lengths to win people back by monitoring attendance or threatening to fire workers who don’t follow the rules.

Most recently, Amazon’s Andy Jassi issued a mandate for corporate employees in a Feb. 17 memo, and Salesforce management developed a return-to-the-office policy, according to a draft of the company’s strategic plan posted in an internal Slack message viewed by Insider.

Here is an alphabetical list of major companies requiring employees to return to offices. Insider will update this list regularly.

  • Amazon
  • Yassi said in a February memo that he would require corporate employees to be in the office at least three days a week starting May 1. The CEO said that he and Amazon management decided that it would be easier for employees to collaborate and that personal work would reinforce the corporate culture.

    In response, thousands of Amazon employees have joined a Slack channel to share their thoughts on the company’s unexpected return to the office, and some have even organized a petition against the changes, Insider’s Eugene Kim reported.

  • Apple
  • In August, senior managers told workers that they should return to the office at least three days a week. CEO Tim Cook said the decision was intended to restore “personal collaboration.” The employees fought back and published a petition shortly after the announcement, arguing that employees could do “exceptional work” from home.

    Read more: Apple workers hit back at the company’s plans to return to the office, saying they were doing “exceptional work” from home.

  • Citygroup
  • In March 2022, vaccinated Citigroup employees in the US were asked to return to the office for at least two days a week, according to an internal memo obtained by Reuters.

    Read more: Return to Work Wars: Citi, Manpower and McKinsey executives on why they are moving to remote and hybrid work

  • Disney
  • In a memo obtained by Insider, CEO Bob Iger told workers that starting in March, any Disney employee working “in a hybrid manner” would be required to return to Disney offices four days a week.

    Read more: Disney CEO Bob Iger tells employees to return to the office 4 days a week, saying “nothing can replace” in-person work.

  • Goldman Sachs
  • In March, CEO David Solomon told Fortune that the company was asking employees to return to the office five days a week. In October, he told CNBC that about 65% of employees work in the office.

    Read more: Goldman Sachs’ return-to-office policy has returned 65% of its employees to their jobs 5 days a week, the bank’s CEO, who is known for his dislike of remote work, said.

  • Google
  • Google employees in the San Francisco Bay Area and “several other locations in the US” have been ordered to return to the office for at least three days a week starting in April 2022.

    Read more: Google will recall employees back to select US offices for 3 days a week starting April 4th.

  • JPMorgan
  • In August, CEO Jamie Dimon pulled out of remote work, saying it didn’t work for an apprenticeship program or “spontaneous things,” according to Yahoo Finance.

    Meanwhile, JPMorgan has asked half of its employees to return to the office five days a week and another 40% a few days a week. The company collects data on the activity of the staff, including tracking attendance.

    Read more: JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon told clients that remote work “slows down honesty and decision making,” the report said.

  • sales department
  • Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff made changes to the company’s annual strategic plan, including a return-to-office requirement, according to a draft document posted in an internal Slack message viewed by Insider. In February 2021, Salesforce stated that workers can “work from anywhere”.

    The updated draft return-to-office policy will require three days a week in the office for non-remote employees and four days a week for employees in “non-remote” and “customer” positions. Engineers will be required to work in the office 10 days per quarter, compared to 20 in the original design, which has been updated based on employee feedback.

    Read more: According to leaked reports, Salesforce’s Marc Benioff has scrapped a plan to cut ratings to 5% and ordered employees to return to the office.

  • Starbucks
  • In a memo to corporate employees, CEO Howard Schultz said employees who are in range will be required to return to the office at least three days a week starting Jan. 31. In August, Schultz said he was doing his best to keep workers in the office. .

    Read more: Howard Schultz says the barista doesn’t have the “privilege” to work from home as he orders Starbucks employees to come back to the office 3 days a week.

  • Twitter
  • After buying Twitter in October, Elon Musk told employees in November that not showing up to the office when they could was tantamount to being fired, reports The Verge.

    Musk also told employees via email that remote work is no longer allowed and that employees must be in the office for at least 40 hours a week unless explicit permission is obtained to work elsewhere.

    Read more: Elon Musk asks Twitter employees to return to the office, otherwise their resignation will be accepted

  • Uber
  • In a memo obtained by Insider, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told employees that starting in April 2022, Uber employees at the company’s 35 locations were required to return to the office at least half the time. He added that on other days, employees were allowed to work remotely, and some could work completely remotely if they got permission from their supervisors.

    Read more: An internal memorandum from Uber’s CEO directs employees to return to the office in April. This is in stark contrast to rival Lyft.

    An earlier version of this story appeared on January 16, 2023.

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