Amazon instructs employees to spend five days in the office.

• Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is directing employees to spend five days a week away from the office.

On Monday, CEO Andy Jassy instructed corporate staffers to spend five days a week in the office.

Amazon has changed its return-to-work policy, allowing employees to work from home until January 2.

Jassy announced that Amazon plans to streamline its corporate structure by reducing the number of managers in order to "eliminate layers and flatten organizations." Prior to Jassy's leadership, Amazon experienced rapid growth in headcount during the pandemic. In response, Jassy implemented cost-cutting measures, including the largest layoffs in the company's 27-year history as a public company.

Jassy communicated to staffers in a detailed message that Amazon is implementing changes to enhance its corporate culture and maintain agility. He emphasized this by stating that the company established a "bureaucracy mailbox," or a dedicated email address, to identify any redundant procedures or strict regulations within the organization.

"Jassy wrote that the company wants to operate like the world's largest startup, which means having a passion for constantly inventing for customers, strong urgency, high ownership, fast decision-making, scrappiness and frugality, deeply-connected collaboration, and a shared commitment to each other."

Here's the full memo from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy:

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