For all of Amazon’s clout, its plans likely won’t motivate many other businesses to follow with their own five-day in-person workweek, according to some workplace experts.

Amazon is demanding that its corporate employees return to the office five days a week, a significant change from its current pandemic-era hybrid policy that requires them to be in the office just three days a week.

Amazon has ordered its near-300,000 corporate employees to return to the office full-time, with the tech giant also announcing plans to cut a number of manager positions. Like most organisations, Amazon moved to remote working for its corporate workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic.