Amazon.

The logistics of requiring employees to return to the office (RTO) may be more challenging than expected. Amazon, which required corporate employees to be in the office five days a week starting in January, discovered it did not have enough desks or parking spots for its full contingent of 350,000 workers, according to a Wall Street Journal report. This lack of space has caused Amazon to postpone RTO for some staff.

Although Amazon said the space shortages are limited, the Wall Street Journal report said 18 offices in the San Francisco Bay Area are short desks for at least 800 employees. Hundreds of employees have petitioned the company to open a new office in the region. In addition, those returning to the office said their days have been filled with endless virtual meetings that could have been handled remotely, and some said their teammates don’t work from the same location, which nullifies the RTO goal of collaboration.

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