It’s been a week since Amazon’s corporate employees ditched their slippers for commuter shoes and started heading into the office every day. Amazon says the five-day return to office policy is about strengthening its culture, but some employees and experts have a different theory for why the company is rolling back its pandemic-era work from home policy.

On this episode of Booming, what's really behind Amazon's push to come back to the office? And does this signal the end of the work-from-home era? 

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