Amazon joins Apple, Google, IBM, Microsft in allowing workers to split time between offices, homes

Corporate and tech employees at Amazon won’t have to work in offices full time after coronavirus restrictions are lifted. Neither will those at Apple.

IBM and Google are offering similar opportunities.

IBM has told vaccinated workers that they can return to work inoffices without masks in September. according to a company memo

Google said last month that it expected roughly 60% of its workforce to come into the office a few days a week, and for 20% to work from home full time. Google also gave all employees the option to work remotely full time four weeks per year. Facebook and Microsoft have both said most workers can choose to stay remote.

The Seattle Times reports Amazon said in a company blog post Thursday that those workers can work remotely two days a week. In addition, the employees can work remotely from a domestic location for four full weeks each year.

Amazon’s work policy update follows backlash from some employees to what they interpreted as the expectation they would have to return to the office full time once states reopen.

Some tech companies had launched recruiting campaigns that seemed targeted in part at Amazon workers’ dismay over an end to remote work.

Last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook said he wants employees to returnoffices three days a week starting early September, according to a report in the Verge.

Cook eyes a Monday-Tuesday-Thursday office schedule.

However, some teams will need to be in the office four or five days a week, the…

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