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‘VARs and distributors are floating the idea’: 4 recruiters on Amazon’s return-to-office move

Will the channel see a return to five days a week working in the office?

Doug Woodburn by Doug Woodburn
18 September 2024
in Careers & Skills, Indepth, News, People Moves
‘VARs and distributors are floating the idea’: 4 recruiters on Amazon’s return-to-office move
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Are you seeing any rise in clients tightening their ‘return to work’ policies, and have any implemented a five-day-office policy specifically?

People are definitely tightening. The number of remote roles we’re hiring for has gone down significantly.

How many are going back to a five-day policy? Not many. And if they have, it’s not usually an expectation – it’s more that some top performers in those organisations do. The expectation for entry-level roles – BDRs in our world – is typically three or four days in the office. I think that’s now the expectation and accepted from both sides.

Do you have a view on which generally works best out of office or remote working?

I’ve got a very sales-led view, as that’s the ecosystem I typically work in, but it’s a huge question mark for candidates if a company doesn’t have an office.

If I was recruiting engineers or developers maybe my view would be different, but in sales I can certainly align to what Andy [Jassy] said. There is a huge upside to bringing teams together to cultivate really high-performing teams and a culture of being together, both internally and with partners and customers.

I understand the detractors’ point of view too. There’s a huge amount of subjectivity to it and it genuinely depends on where the individual is in their life, and what personal and family commitments they have. We live in a world where we should be given some flexibility.

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