Amazon Plans More — Not Fewer — Offices In Big Cities

People stand in the lobby of Amazon offices in New York in January 2019. At a time of mass work from home and many moving to spacious suburbs, Amazon is funding a large expansion of corporate real estate and jobs in New York and five other U.S. cities.

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In a year of mass work from home, Amazon is zagging by funding a big expansion of corporate office space and jobs in six cities.

The company says it’s adding over 905,000 square feet of real estate and 3,500 tech and corporate jobs in Dallas, Detroit, Denver, Phoenix, San Diego and even New York City, whose future as an uber-expensive work hub has been subject to much analysis.

Amazon’s own corporate staff members are allowed to work remotely until Jan. 8, but the company is betting that workers will eventually be eager to return to offices.