Amazon starting to track and penalize workers who work from home too much

Notice sent to employees who were not in office at least three times a week, after other tech firms' efforts to get workers back on site

Amazon workers in the US are being tracked and penalized for not spending sufficient time in the company's offices, an email sent to employees this week revealed, as tech companies push back against work-from-home practices that flourished during the pandemic.

Some staff members were alerted on Wednesday they were not currently meeting our expectation of joining your colleagues in the office at least three days a week", according to emails shared with the Financial Times. The emails were also discussed on the anonymous corporate message board platform Blind.