33 Major Companies Requiring 5 Days In Office
Thirty-three Fortune 500 companies currently require employees to be in the office five days a week.
Below, you’ll see 10 notable Fortune 500 companies with five-day RTO policies. You’ll also see a bonus section with some non-Fortune 500s.
If you want to see all 33, we track the data in our Fortune 500 RTO Database. Here are a few good ways to access the data:
- Access this list of 10 companies in a free spreadsheet
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- Purchase the full dataset
👉 Fortune 500 Companies In Office Full-Time 👈
1) Amazon
According to CNBC, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sent a new memo instructing corporate employees to come into the office five days per week. The new policy will go into full effect on January 2, 2025.
- Fortune 500 rank: 2
- Headquarters: Washington
- Employees: 1,525,000
- Most recent RTO date: 1/2/2025
- Workplace policy: Office First
Learn more about Amazon’s RTO policy.
See Also: Major Companies Facing RTO Backlash
2) Exxon Mobil
Employees based in Houston (at its headquarters) were expected to return to office five days a week starting mid-May of 2021, according to Bloomberg.
- Fortune 500 rank: 7
- Headquarters: Texas
- Employees: 61,500
- Most recent RTO date: 5/17/2021
- Workplace policy: Office First
3) JPMorgan Chase
On its sixth return-to-office attempt since 2020, the bank’s latest policy change was released on January 7, 2025 – all employees are expected to be in the office full-time.
- Fortune 500 rank: 12
- Headquarters: New York
- Employees: 309,926
- Most recent RTO date: January 7, 2024
- Workplace policy: Office First
Learn more about JPMorgan Chase’s RTO policy.
4) Goldman Sachs Group
August 22, 2023: “The Wall Street giant is embarking on a fresh effort to enforce its policy of working from the office five days a week.”
- Fortune 500 rank: 35
- Headquarters: New York
- Employees: 45,300
- Most recent RTO date: 8/22/2023
- Workplace policy: Office First
Learn more about Goldman Sachs’s RTO policy.
5) Tesla
June 1, 2022: Tesla’s Elon Musk asked employees to return to office or leave the company, in an email.
- Fortune 500 rank: 40
- Headquarters: Texas
- Employees: 140,473
- Most recent RTO date: 6/1/2022
- Workplace policy: Office First
6) United Parcel Service
UPS started to require all corporate employees to return to the office for a full, five-day workweek in March of 2024.
- Fortune 500 rank: 45
- Headquarters: Georgia
- Employees: 382,550
- Most recent RTO date: 3/4/2024
- Workplace policy: Office First
7) Boeing
In October of 2023, Boeing instructed corporate employees to return to the office full-time “after the holiday break.”
- Fortune 500 rank: 52
- Headquarters: Virginia
- Employees: 171,000
- Most recent RTO date: 1/1/2024
- Workplace policy: Office First
8) RTX (Raytheon)
Based on Buildremote’s research, Raytheon management likely sent out a memo to most employees requiring a return to the office in October of 2024.
- Fortune 500 rank: 55
- Headquarters: Virginia
- Employees: 185,000
- Most recent RTO date: 10/7/2024
- Workplace policy: Office First
Learn more about RTX’s return-to-office policy.
9) AT&T
AT&T employees received a memo in October of 2024 to return to the office full-time in January of 2025.
- Fortune 500 rank: 32
- Headquarters: Texas
- Employees: 150,470
- Most recent RTO date: 01/02/2025
- Workplace policy: Office First
10) Broadcom
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said in an all-hands meeting that he expects all employees within 50 miles of an office to return to in-person work (five days per week), according to Business Insider.
- Fortune 500 rank: 118
- Headquarters: California
- Employees: 20,000
- Most recent RTO date: 11/30/2023
- Workplace policy: Office First
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👉 BONUS Companies In Office Full-Time 👈
Here are some other, non-Fortune 500 companies with five-day/week policies.
The Washington Post
All employees at the newspaper will be expected to be in the office starting on June 2, 2025.
- Fortune 500 rank: –
- Headquarters: Washington D. C.
- Employees: 2,500
- Most recent RTO date: 06/02/2025
- Workplace policy: Office First
Stellantis
“The automaker that owns the Jeep, Ram, Chrysler, Dodge and Fiat brands wants its employees back in the office three to five days per week beginning on March 3,” the Detroit Free Press reported.
- Fortune 500 rank: –
- Headquarters: Texas
- Employees: 1,605
- Most recent RTO date: 05/01/2022
- Workplace policy: Office First
Brookfield Corporation
Brookfield Corporation enforces a full five-day in-office workweek under an office-first approach since June 2021.
- Headquarters: Toronto, Ontario
- Employees: 240,000
- Most recent RTO date: June 17, 2021
- Workplace policy: Office First
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) requires five days per week in the office under a strict office-first policy.
- Headquarters: Toronto, Ontario
- Employees: 49,000
- Most recent RTO date: January 23, 2025
- Workplace policy: Office First
See Also: Return To Office Policies For 14 Major Canadian Companies
Return To Office Statistics For The Fortune 500
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According to primary research that we conduct each month at Buildremote, here are the main takeaways of our study of the Fortune 500’s return to office policies:
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You can research and add in AT&T now too; as they just announced today to their employees (10-29-24) that instead of three days per week (which they just recently upped from one day per week for many teams) that they expect five days per week beginning Jan. 2, 2025. (Even for employees who never had to go into an office to begin with) This is an undue burden and adds huge costs to employees for travel, car expenses, tolls, gas, parking, food, and childcare and elder care, as well as life and health risks from commuting.
They don’t care if employees’ expenses go up and quality of life go down. They cheer about it and talk about how exciting it is instead. Who do they think they are fooling?
How sad and pathetic, especially because it is absolutely unnecessary. Many of their offices don’t even have enough desks or parking for the number of people they are forcing back; plus many employees don’t even live near an office and have to travel hours each way or relocate just to keep their jobs for now – and that’s not even guaranteed. It seems they are trying to push people out the door – especially older employees who still have pensions, and for whom it is even harder to commute. Absolutely pathetic AT&T. Shameful beyond measure.
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Unfortunately, we’ve raised a nation of wimps. Hard times create strong people. Strong people create easy times. Easy times create weak people. Weak people create hard times. Guess which one we’re in.
Many of our employees are on their phones at work. Would hate to see how much they’re on them at home.