Amazon announces new management plan: employees to work in the office five days a week, promoting organizational flatness
Amazon announced that employees will resume working in the office five days a week, aiming to return to the work mode before the pandemic. CEO Andy Jassy mentioned in the memo that the company will reallocate office desks and require each team to increase the ratio of individual contributors to managers by at least 15% by the end of the first quarter of 2025 to achieve organizational flattening
According to CNBC, on Monday, Amazon (AMZN.US) CEO Andy Jassy stated in a letter to employees that a key adjustment recently is that the e-commerce giant wants employees to return to pre-pandemic working conditions, which means working in the office five days a week. Amazon will resume assigning office desks at locations where this approach was previously used, including its U.S. headquarters in Puget Sound and Arlington, Virginia.
The Seattle-based company also mentioned that teams are required to organize themselves to increase the ratio of individual contributors to managers by at least 15% by the end of the first quarter of 2025. Reducing managers is seen as an easier way to flatten the organization and eliminate layers