A ‘home run’ or a ‘cowardly’ decision? Amazon’s new in-person work policy elicits cheers and jeers

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Some Amazon employees may not be happy, but January can’t come soon enough for many of the Seattle organizations and businesses that have been lobbying the company to return to five days a week of in-person work. 

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