Love it or hate it, remote work was good for Seattle’s traffic problem. With Amazon’s announcement this week that it wants thousands of corporate and tech workers in the office five days a week, expect congestion into and of the city to get worse.

All employees at Amazon's headquarters in Seattle and Arlington will be expected to work 5 days a week in the office, according to reports.

Amazon is demanding that its corporate employees return to the office five days a week, a significant change from its current pandemic-era hybrid policy that requires them to be in the office just three days a week.