Thousands of Amazon employees ordered to relocate based on their team

Thousands of Amazon’s corporate employees are being ordered to move to be closer to their teams and managers. 

Amazon asked the thousands of affected employees to move to Seattle, Arlington, Virginia, or the District of Columbia, sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg on Wednesday.

An Amazon spokesperson told The Washington Times that the number of employees who have been asked to move is small relative to the company’s overall workforce and that teams within Amazon have been deciding how to concentrate their members for a while.

The worldwide online commerce giant has corporate offices in Seattle, Arlington and Nashville, Tennessee, and other work sites nationwide and around the world.

Amazon employees who have been asked to move will have varying timelines as to when they need to relocate, and Amazon is offering them support to help them move, the Amazon spokesperson told The Times. 

The relocations are being communicated to workers through one-on-one meetings and in company town halls.

The policy is in line with changes Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced to employees in September.

Mr. Jassy said that Amazon would be going back to its pre-COVID office policies starting on Jan. 2, 2025, in which remote work was allowed only under extenuating circumstances and for employees with specific remote work exceptions. He also addressed location-specific assignments for workers.

“We are also going to bring back assigned desk arrangements in locations that were previously organized that way, including the U.S. headquarters locations (Puget Sound and Arlington),” Mr. Jassy wrote.