A few weeks ago, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced that all corporate employees, including AWS staffers, will be expected to work in the office five days a week beginning in January. I don’t work for Amazon, but if I did, I’d quit. Period. End of statement.
I stopped working from offices decades ago, long before it was cool. I did it for two reasons. One, as I told my employer at the time, “If they really needed me in our New York City office, I could fly in the same day, but I doubted if they’d ever need me.” I was right. While I’ve been back to Manhattan many times for business, they’ve never needed me there. And, two, I’d be a lot more efficient working from my home office.
Guess what? I was, and I am.
