'' amazon's ceo andy jassy said the company doesn't plan to order corporate workers to return to work. We don't have a plan to force people to come back said jassy who was speaking at the code conference in los angeles on wednesday. “We don't right now. The reason we're doing it is to get out of the house. People are going stir crazy.”
The company had originally planned to have employees return by the end of April. Employees will be allowed to work from home as long as they are able to work, Jassy said.
Amazon isn't the first company to ask employees to stay home for the rest of the month. Google and Microsoft have also asked their workers to work from home, and Facebook is also closing its offices.
Jassy said he was surprised by how quickly employees have gone back to working from home.
“We have seen a lot of