Amazon expects most of its employees in the United States to return to the office in September

Amazon expects most of its US employees to return to the office “early in the fall.”, that is to say between end of September and the beginning of Octoberthe company said this week in an internal memo.

“In the United States, as vaccines become widely available in the coming months, we expect more people to start arriving at the office during the summer, with most returning in early fall.Amazon said in a blog note to employees dated Tuesday.

Workers in some European countries can come back later due to setbacks in vaccine distribution, the company said.

Amazon is the second largest private sector employer in the United States, behind Walmart, and the largest employer in his hometown, Seattle.

Since the start of the pandemic, most of the company’s executives worked from home, But Your warehouse workers and delivery drivers were considered essential workers and stayed on the job.

In Biden’s viewfinder

The announcement comes a day after President Joe Biden referred Amazon as one of the companies that will have to pay their fair share of taxes to fund their ambitious $ 2 trillion infrastructure plan.

He said it was not about “retaliation” against the rich and successful, but the fact that Amazon does not pay federal taxes is “just plain wrong.”

He cited a 2019 study showing that 91 Fortune 500 companies, “The biggest companies in the world, including Amazon, don’t pay a single dime in federal income tax.”

“It’s wrong”Biden said. “A firefighter and a teacher paying 22% and Amazon and 90 other big companies paying no federal tax?” I’m going to end this “.

Funding would come from increase the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28% and crack down on the use of tax havens to avoid paying US taxes. Even if Congress passes the increase proposed by Biden, a 28% corporate tax rate would still be the lowest since World War II, except for the past three years.

However, Amazon’s senior vice president of politics and press, Jay carney, on Wednesday defended the use by the company of tax credits for research and development.

“If the R&D tax credit is a ‘loophole’, it is certainly one of the expectations of Congress,” he wrote on Twitter, noting that lawmakers have extended it several times since its creation in 1981 and that President Barack Obama made it permanent in 2015.

Biden argued that the corporate tax increase “It’s not about penalizing anyone. I have nothing against millionaires and billionaires ”.

The eight-year investment plan “builds a fairer economy that gives everyone the opportunity to succeed,” he said, noting that “It would create millions of jobs, high paying jobs.”

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