Meta, Amazon, Disney among major names calling employees back to office in 2023
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Post two rounds of significant layoffs, Meta Platforms (META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg now is encouraging staff to find more opportunities to work with your colleagues in person.
Walking back on lenient work-from-home policies and calling workers back to the office in 2023 is the latest that big companies are now adopting; others like Amazon.com (AMZN) Starbucks (SBUX) and Walt Disney (DIS) are also looking for the same.

These orders came amid U.S. office occupancy breaking 50% for the first time in late January since the pandemic began and CEOs like JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon continue to reject remote work who recently said WFH doesn't work for managers or younger staff.
Besides the other common reasons of companies asking employees to return to office, speculation has arisen about other reasons executives want workers back in person, like keeping corporate tax breaks.
Amazon has told employees to return to offices three days a week starting May 1; CEO Andy Jassy quoted in the company blog, "There is something about being face-to-face with somebody, looking them in the eye and seeing theyâre fully immersed in whatever youâre discussing that bonds people together."
The company estimated 18K job elimination total in mid-January.
General Motors (GM) and Starbucks had set a return-to-office date of Jan. 30, requiring employees to report to offices three days a week while Snap (SNAP) expected to report to the office four days a week in February.
Walmart (WMT) also required to report to the office at least twice a week.
DIS also handed down a four-day in-office mandate starting March 1, one of the strictest so far outside Wall Street; the company in early February slashed 7K jobs.