Amazon CEO Vows Leaner Teams Amid Bloat, Ends Work From Home
- Company is targeting bureaucracy after ballooning in size
- Jassy acknowledges RTO policy will require ‘adjustments’
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Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy is moving to streamline the world’s largest online retailer and cloud-computing company, cutting management layers and ordering employees to return to the office five days a week beginning in January.
The shakeup, announced in a memo to employees on Monday, echoed what some company veterans have been whispering for years: It’s become harder to get things done at Amazon. Stories of endless deliberation, unnecessary meetings and layers of approval have become commonplace at a company that fashions itself as a collection of teams charged with operating like startups.