Amazon CEO says company will slow hiring rate, no hard return to office planned
&quot;We don&#x27;t have a plan to require people to come back... But we&#x27;re going to proceed adaptively as we learn.&quot;<p>No plan to come back != a promise to never force employees back to the office. Paired with Amazon&#x27;s continued commercial real estate investments (discussed in the article), that&#x27;s a massive competitive disadvantage in the remote work space. As a remote worker who plans on buying a home and putting down roots in the small, middle-of-nowhere town I live in, no way in hell that I&#x27;d accept a job offer from a company that dangles RTO over my head like this.<p>Of course, Amazon is toxic enough to avoid anyway. But I hope other employers don&#x27;t embrace this nonsense.