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> Jassy said he and the S-team, a tight-knit group of senior executives from almost all areas of Amazon's business, decided at a meeting earlier this week that employees should be in the office "the majority of the time (at least three days per week)."

Was the meeting in a physical office? Can we expect the policy to apply to them as well as the rest of the staff? You know, to make it easier to "ask ad-hoc questions on the way to lunch, in the elevator, or the hallway" of leadership.

[_vertigo]

Honestly I would be surprised if the majority (all, really) of the S Team isn’t planning on coming in every day of the week

[marcinzm]

When you've got a private office, a couple executive assistants, a private driver, a company paid hotel if you need to stay late and a (possibly second) house close by it becomes a much easier thing to do.

edit: And of course 24/7 nannies.

[fragmede]

That seems inefficient. Just throw beds in a couple of conference rooms.

[pcan77]

not really a big deal for them considering they have the big bucks to buy a nice home 5 min from the office, or you know, pay for a car service to drive them.

[_vertigo]

Yeah, that’s kind of my point. They probably love to come into the office

[humanrebar]

To the same floor of the same office?

[_vertigo]

No, probably not. They’re executives, they probably have offices in different buildings corresponding to their business area throughout Seattle. Like the AWS head doesn’t need to work from the same building as the head of Consumer.

But yeah, I’m not sure that they always meet in person when they meet. I have no idea about that. But I don’t think that the majority of their job function entails meeting each other, probably it entails running their division.

[sirsinsalot]

Honestly, the type of execs having huddles like that likely don't need work/life balance because they're 100% corporate cult company men anyway.

Normal people, with normal life priorities and who find joy in many things outside the workplace seem to enjoy WFH. Their work doesn't define them.

This kind of sweeping policy change without consultation of the people it affects would be an immediate resignation from me.

[xadhominemx]

I’m sure the S-Team will be in the office almost every day.