Amazon is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week starting next year, reverting to its pre-pandemic policy.

Amazon raises hourly pay by $1.50 for front-line employees, bringing average total compensation to $29/hr. Total investment of $2.2B for 800K employees.

Amazon is raising the base pay for its employees, investing more than $2.2 billion in its workforce. The base pay will go up at least $1.50 to more than $22 an hour for workers in fulfillment and transportation jobs, Reuters reported. That will be about $3,000 additional each year for people working 40 hours a week.

Amazon.com said on Wednesday it is increasing the base pay of hourly workers in its fulfillment and transportation operations by $1.50 to more than $22 per hour. (Reporting by Yuvraj Malik in Bengaluru;

Amazon notified employees about the policy change on Monday, though it isn't set to take effect until early next year.Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning.

My company got real strict about RTO last year insisting on 3 days in the office and laying off fully remote workers. 9 months later they have dropped the policy.”

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy had a tough announcement for his company’s remote work enthusiasts on Monday: The tech and logistics giant is bringing its staff back into the office five days a week. The Seattle company,

Amazon boss Andy Jassy told corporate staffers in a memo on Monday that they needed to return to the office five days a week by Jan. 2.