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Many major companies are requiring employees to return to the office full or part-time.
Insider compiled a running list of the companies calling employees back.
The list includes companies like Amazon, BlackRock, Disney, and JPMorgan.
Since COVID-19 restrictions eased, many companies have been calling their employees back to the office.
Some executives and leaders believe productivity increases when workers are in the office together, while others hope to increase in-person collaboration. Some employers are taking extremes to get people back, tracking attendance or threatening to terminate workers who don't comply.
Among major employers, JPMorgan Chase is abandoning a hybrid attendance policy it adopted during the pandemic and requiring executives to return to the office. Meanwhile, Amazon's Andy Jassy issued a mandate for corporate staffers. And Salesforce's leadership has also drafted a return-to-office policy, according to a draft of the company's strategic plan shared in an internal Slack message viewed by Insider.
Here's a list, in alphabetical order, of major companies requiring employees to return to offices. Insider will update this list regularly.
Amazon
Jassy said in a February memo that he will require corporate employees to spend at least three days per week in the office beginning May 1. The CEO said he and Amazon's leadership team decided it would be easier for employees to collaborate and that in-person work would strengthen the company's culture.
In response, thousands of Amazon employees joined a Slack channel to share their thoughts about the company's surprise return-to-office mandate, with some even organizing to file a petition against the change, Insider's Eugene Kim reported.
Apple
In August, senior leaders told workers they had to return to the office at least three days a week. CEO Tim Cook said the decision was meant to restore "in-person collaboration." Employees fought back and issued a petition shortly after the announcement, arguing that staffers can do "exceptional work" from home.
BlackRock
Starting in September, BlackRock is mandating employees return to the office four days a week. The investment firm, which is headquartered in New York City, is making an effort to bring employees into the newly leased office space — which spans 1 million square feet across 15 floors, according to Hudson Yards.
In a May memo sent by the company's COO, Rob Goldstein, and the head of human resources, Caroline Heller, the execs wrote: "Career development happens in teaching moments between team members, and it is accelerated during market-moving moments, when we step up and get into the mix. All of this requires us to be together in the office."
Additionally, the memo notified staffers that the firm is giving them the opportunity to work remotely for two weeks during a time period that is relevant in their country, in an effort to offer "seasonal flexibility."
Chipotle
The fast-food chain plans to require that corporate workers work in the office four days a week, according to Bloomberg. Chipotle, which had been requiring workers to show up three days a week, announced the shift in late May, according to the report.
Read more: Chipotle Calls Corporate Staff Into Office Four Days a Week
Citigroup
Vaccinated Citigroup employees across the US were asked to return to the office for at least two days a week in March 2022, an internal memo obtained by Reuters said.
Disney
In a memo obtained by Insider, CEO Bob Iger told workers that starting in March, any Disney staff member working "in a hybrid fashion" will need to return to Disney's offices four days a week.
But some employees are fighting that mandate.
Goldman Sachs
In March, CEO David Solomon told Fortune that the company was asking employees to return to the office five days a week. In October, he told CNBC that about 65% of staffers were working in the office.
Google employees in the San Francisco Bay Area and "several other US locations" were told to return to the office for at least three days a week starting in April 2022.
IBM
IBM's CEO, Arvind Krishna, has encouraged workers to return to the office for three days a week.
Meanwhile, IBM's HR chief told Insider in 2021 that most employees would return to the office part-time after the pandemic.
Recently, Krishna told Bloomberg that employees' careers could suffer if they work from home. He said that although he wasn't forcing his own staffers back to the office, he thought remote workers may struggle to get promotions. Krishna has been IBM's CEO since 2020.
JPMorgan
