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mac01021
> “Employees who work in a role that can effectively be done from home are welcome to do so until at least October 2,”

If I can _effectively_ fill my role from home, why wouldn't I be welcome to do it for as long as that's true?

greenyoda
"Effectiveness" isn't a binary measure - it's a continuous scale. Maybe Amazon believes that its employees are able to work effectively from home, but also believes that they could work even more effectively from the office?

My own recent experience with remote working makes me think that I'm more effective when working at the office.

a3n
> Amazon.com Inc has told staff whose job can be done from home that they can do so until at least Oct. 2

So they find it necessary for their office staff to be at work by some date. So that must be better than their staff working remotely.

So why not bring back all their staff now, with exactly the same procedures and equipment given to warehouse staff?

Or are office staff too expensive and hard to replace, and just plain worth more, relative to easily replaceable low skilled warehouse workers?