Amazon's New Remote Work Policy Gives Regional Airlines a Lift


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The tech giant’s latest tinkering with office policies will likely chip away further at the legacy carriers' traditional corporate travel volumes.

Amazon’s decision to allow corporate employees to work from home may mean diminished business for its large airline partners, experts warn. But as with consultancy PwC’s own permanent move to remote work, it’s likely the tech giant’s corporate travel volumes will be redistributed more than reduced. And that's good news for regional airlines. A company of Amazon’s size can’t really implement an unwieldy blanket policy, so it’s giving teams the power to decide how many days will be needed. “For our corporate roles, instead of specifying that people work a baseline of three days a week in the office, we’re going to leave this decision up to individual teams,” said CEO Andy Jassy in a company blog pos