18 Major Companies Requiring 5 Days In Office
17 of the Fortune 500 companies are currently requiring five days per week in the office.
Below, you’ll see the all 17 of those companies plus other notable five-day RTO companies. All of this information comes from Buildremote’s database of the Fortune 500 RTO policies.
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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
JPMorgan Chase issued an internal memo telling employees to return to the office on February 1, 2022.“We expect everyone to return to their in-office schedule no later than February 1,” the memo said.
- Fortune 500 rank: 12
- Headquarters: New York
- Employees: 309,926
- Most recent RTO date: 2/1/2022
- 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) Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley returned to the office five days per week in February of 2022. In July of 2022, Morgan Stanley tightened restrictions on remote work by stating that salespeople can no longer work more than 90 days per year from home.
- Fortune 500 rank: 41
- Headquarters: New York
- Employees: 80,006
- Most recent RTO date: 7/1/2022
- Workplace policy: Office First
Learn more about Morgan Stanley’s RTO policy.
7) 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
8) 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
9) 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.
10) HCA Healthcare
HCA Healthcare brought back its employees in Nashville, Tenn., full-time on May 2, 2022, the company confirmed in a statement shared with Becker’s.
“While we have some roles that lend themselves to other work models, we believe in-person work benefits our colleagues and our organization by reinforcing our culture and promoting teamwork and professional development,” said HCA.
- Fortune 500 rank: 61
- Headquarters: Tennessee
- Employees: 265,000
- Most recent RTO date: 5/2/2022
- Workplace policy: Office First
11) 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
12) Cheniere Energy
In May of 2022, Cheniere Energy moved into a new office tower in downtown Houston. The company maintains a full-time, in-office schedule.
“We believe that our teams best collaborate and innovate when we are together,” said Michael Dove, a senior VP at Cheniere.
- Fortune 500 rank: 200
- Headquarters: Texas
- Employees: 1,605
- Most recent RTO date: 05/01/2022
- Workplace policy: Office First
13) L3Harris Technologies
In September of 2024, L3Harris issued a press release that all hybrid employees must return to the office full-time. The release mentioned that some remote workers would still be supported.
- Fortune 500 rank: 209
- Headquarters: Florida
- Employees: 50,000
- Most recent RTO date: 09/16/2024
- Workplace policy: Office First
14) Western & Southern Financial Group
In a report from October of 2022, Western & Southern Spokeswoman Diane Planck said, “While we have adjusted to changing conditions throughout the pandemic to protect health and safety, we know that being together in the office is vital to the sustainment of our corporate culture and the best way to serve our customers.”
Its 2,000 employees are in the office full-time.
- Fortune 500 rank: 284
- Headquarters: Ohio
- Employees: 2,669
- Most recent RTO date: 10/03/2022
- Workplace policy: Office First
15) Carvana
In May 2020, Carvana gave its employees an ultimatum: return to work full-time or lose their jobs.
- Fortune 500 rank: 377
- Headquarters: Arizona
- Employees: 13,700
- Most recent RTO date: 04/27/2020
- Workplace policy: Office First
16) Blackstone
Blackstone employees have been back in the office full-time since June 2021, according to Business Insider.
- Fortune 500 rank: 464
- Headquarters: New York
- Employees: 4,735
- Most recent RTO date: 06/01/2021
- Workplace policy: Office First
17) 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
18) 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
Return To Office Statistics For The Fortune 500
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 p*ssies. 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.