Leaked email shows Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is tightening its return-to-office policy: ‘Blue is a work-from-work company’

• Blue Origin tells many employees to be in the office 5 days a week, internal email shows.
• Last year, Blue Origin told managers it would be flexible about employee work schedules.
• Some other tech companies have less strict return-to-office policies for now.

Blue Origin, the space company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is telling many employees to be in the office 5 days a week as it transitions from a more flexible remote work policy, Insider has learned.

Company executives recently shared a reminder of the new return-to-office policy, according to a companywide email obtained by Insider. It said employees with assigned desks in 5 of its remote offices, across Denver, El Segundo, Woodland Hills, Phoenix, and Reston, Virginia, must adhere to this policy because their “desk occupancy rates need to improve.”