Beginning of end of work from home: Meta, Amazon among firms calling employees back to office in 2023

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Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg is now encouraging staff to find more opportunities to work with your colleagues in person.Meta is the latest high-profile company to walk back lenient work-from-home policies and call workers back to the office in 2023, joining others like Amazon.com Inc., Starbucks Corp. and Walt Disney Co...

The orders come as office occupancy across the US this year broke 50% for the first time since the pandemic began and CEOs like JPMorgan Chase & Co.s Jamie Dimon continue to reject remote work.Working from home doesnt work for managers or younger staff, Dimon said recently...

This years return-to-office policies follow 2022s mandates from the likes of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley, Apple Inc. and Peloton Interactive Inc.(Last year Bloomberg LP required its workers to return to the office a minimum of three days a week.)..

The company has told employees to return to offices three days a week starting May 1. Thats after CEO Andy Jassy said in October that managers would be able to decide how often, if at all, their staff should come in..

Interim CEO Howard Schultz ordered corporate workers back to officesthree days a week in January.Schultz said corporate staff made a promise last year to be in the office one to two days a week, but that badging data has shown that many have fallen short..

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