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Quit if you don’t want to return to the office, Amazon exec says

Matt Garman, chief executive of Amazon’s AWS unit, has defended the company’s new five-day-per-week in-office policy and suggested those who do not wish to adhere to the rule can quit. “If there are people who just don’t work well in that environment and don’t want to, that’s okay, there are other companies around,” said Garman. “By the way, I don’t mean that in a bad way,” he said, adding “we want to be in an environment where we’re working together.” Garman said nine out of 10 workers he has spoken with support the new policy, which takes effect in January. “When we want to really, really innovate on interesting products, I have not seen an ability for us to do that when we’re not in-person,” he said at an all-hands meeting. The company has been enforcing a three-day in-office policy, but CEO Andy Jassy said last month that Amazon would move to five days to “invent, collaborate and be connected.”

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