In response to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's, mandate, employees drafted an internal petition to fight the mandate, urging him to consider a new, more flexible, working policy. In February, Amazon decided to ditch its WFH policy by asking all workers to return to the office for at least three days a week, starting from May 1. This pushback hasn't seemed to make much of a difference though, as Disney's four-day-a-week policy is still in place. Unfortunately for the CEO, this policy change wasn't welcomed with open arms, with 2,300 Disney employees signing a petition in response which asked Iger to reconsider the policy due to its “unintended consequences” that could cause “long-term hard to the company”. Technically though, this wasn't the first time the company tried to move away from remote working, as the mandate replaced a three-day-a-week policy that had previously been in place since 2021. Which Companies Have Ditched Fully Remote Working in 2023? DisneyĪfter re-joining the company in November of last year, Disney's new CEO Bob Iger asked workers to return to the office from Monday through to Thursday this January, as part of an attempt to improve the company's “creativity”, “culture” as well as the careers of his employees. To shine a light on companies that have made recent U-turns on remote work, here's our regularly updated list of companies that have decided to bid farewell to the practice in 2023, as well as some that made similar decisions last year.

Yet, as others weigh up the impact of ditching remote working, and face increasing pushback from their staff, mandatory returns have been delayed. As the dust settles from Covid-19, business leaders around the globe have been faced with a very difficult decision - continue with remote work, get employees back to the office, or a hybrid solution.įor many companies, like Amazon and Microsoft, ditching the WFH experiment in favor of in-person collaboration couldn't have come sooner, with 14% of Fortune 100 companies issuing return-to-office mandates as early as 2021.

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