Some Amazon workers face longer return-to-office (RTO) delays of up to 5 days due to office readiness issues.

According to Business Insider, some Amazon employees will not be returning to the office five days a week in January due to the unreadiness of the office.

In September, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced that Amazon workers would be required to return to the office five days a week, up from the current three, starting Jan. 2. This update will affect its approximately 350,000 corporate employees.

The tech company's real estate team informed staffers in Atlanta, Houston, Nashville, and New York that their full-time RTO policy will not be implemented until their workspaces are ready, which may not be until May, according to Business Insider's review of documents.

CNBC Make It was not answered by Amazon, who stated that office buildings will be ready for most workers by Jan. 2. However, some locations may have different timelines, and the company is directly communicating with employees in those locations.

The tech giant has two headquarters, one in Seattle and the other in Arlington, Va.

The company previously stated that all employees should be prepared to return to the office in full-time by January, regardless of whether their designated workspace was ready.

In 2023, Amazon faced a similar problem when they required workers to badge in three times a week. Despite being expected to return by May, memos to workers in New York, Austin, and other locations revealed that their spaces would not be ready until the summer, with some spaces not being ready until September, as previously reported by Business Insider.

The updated requirements for 2025 have sparked discussions about whether the move would lead to a quitting spree or motivate other businesses to increase their own RTO requirements to five days a week. Amazon's cloud boss Matt Garman stated that unhappy workers could leave the company, while Jassy denied that the five-day mandate was issued as a "backdoor layoff."

Jassy observed that the company's hybrid return has resulted in teamwide improvements, including easier learning, modeling, and practicing of the company's culture; more effective collaboration, brainstorming, and inventing; smoother teaching and learning from one another; and better connections among teams, as he announced the new five-day requirement in his memo.

"The last 15 months of being back in the office at least three days a week has strengthened our conviction about the benefits."

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