Seattle businesses anticipate boost

Downtown Seattle leader calls Amazon’s return-to-office mandate ‘influential’ as 5-day policy begins
Will other companies follow Amazon’s lead? That’s a key question for the future of downtown Seattle as the tech giant brings workers back to the office five days a week, as part of a new mandate that goes into effect Thursday.
Seattle preps for traffic nightmare as 50,000 Amazon workers return to office full time
State transit officials are urging drivers to prepare for gridlock as an estimated 50,000 Amazon corporate workers heed CEO Andy Jassy’s directive.
Seattle businesses anticipate boost as Amazon workers return to office
Local businesses in South Lake Union are eagerly anticipating the return of Amazon employees to a five-day in-office work week starting tomorrow.
How Amazon's return to work is expected to impact Seattle traffic
The move is expected to make rush hour traffic around the Seattle area even worse. SEATTLE — Amazon employees will return to the office full time beginning on Thursday. The e-commerce giant previously allowed employees to work from home three days a week but announced the full-time return to office buildings last September.
Traffic impacts of Amazon workers returning full-time to the office
Traffic impacts are expected in the Seattle area as Amazon workers return to the office full-time. “This was far beyond a delay, this was sending people to the streets in a third-world country in the wee hours of the night and asking them to fend for themselves with no solutions.
Seattle Amazon workers begin return to office full time starting Thursday
Then, last year, the tech giant asked all employees to come back to the office three days per week. At the time, at least 30,000 Amazon employees did not agree with the return-to-
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