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In it, they called time on their existing hybrid policy, and instead announced their decision to return to their pre-covid norm: that, by default, you’d be working from an office.

The Times’ current headline is “Amazon demands workers return to office five days a week.” The Guardian’s? “Amazon demands workers return to office five days a week."

The way the memo’s been written up, and responded to by many, has been that Amazon are issuing a simple “return to office” edict., meaning that by January next year, you’ll be expected to be back in the office five days a week, or else.

“To [be] better set up to invent, collaborate, and be connected enough to each other and our culture to deliver the absolute best for customers and the business, we’ve decided that we’re going to return to being in the office the way we were before the onset of COVID.”

It’s a tightly constructed sentence, and one that begs a question: what does working in the way we were before the pandemic look like?

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