Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on making 5-day working from office compulsory: It’s about Culture, not …

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy denied accusations that the company’s new five-day office mandate is a covert attempt to reduce staff, amid growing employee resistance to the stricter return-to-office policy.
“A number of people I’ve seen theorise that the reason we were doing this is a backdoor layoff or we made some sort of deal with the city, or cities, and that’s why we were having people come back and be together more often,” Jassy said at an all-hands meeting Tuesday, according to remarks obtained by CNBC. “I can tell you both of those are not true.”