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Amazon Unwinding WFH Won't Cure Productivity Blues
Collaboration helps spread ideas, but what Big Tech needs more of is competition.
Moving to IRL.
Source: Bloomberg
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Real-estate developers, rejoice. Amazon.com Inc. — once seen as the enemy of commercial property — is bringing workers back to the office five days a week from next year in an effort to tackle corporate “bloat” and workplace inefficiencies.
This is part of a broader trend, as companies from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP to Nike Inc. thin the ranks of middle managers and tighten the screws on remote work to strengthen the beloved trifecta of efficiency, productivity and collaboration after the pandemic. But tech’s water-cooler cheerleaders should be careful what they wish for.