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Fortune
Eleanor Pringle

Amazon staff have launched a petition to fight CEO Andy Jassy's mandate to return to the office

Andy Jassy, chief executive officer of Amazon (Credit: David Ryder/Bloomberg - Getty Images)

It's been a bumpy week at Amazon, and now boss Andy Jassy has got another headache to deal with after staff pushed back hard against a request to come back to the office three days a week.

On Friday, Jassy told staff in an internal company memo that they needed to be back in the office the "majority of the time"—adding it should be at least three days a week. His justification was that "when you’re in-person, people tend to be more engaged, observant, and attuned to what’s happening in the meetings and the cultural clues being communicated."

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