One of Amazon’s (AMZN.O) top executives defended the new, controversial 5-day-per-week in-office policy on Thursday, saying those who do not support it can leave for another company.

Speaking at an all-hands meeting for AWS, unit CEO Matt Garman said nine out of 10 workers he has spoken with support the new policy, which takes effect in January, according to a transcript reviewed by Reuters.

Those who do not wish to work for Amazon in-office five days per week can quit, he suggested.

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      7 hours ago

      Oncall is usually a 24/7 type of thing, where speed is a major factor, and I doubt they would want to restrict oncall engineers to on-site only.

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        7 hours ago

        I’m not seeing anything about 24/7 on call workers. The article is about five days a week employees. Did I miss something?

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          6 hours ago

          Bork is saying a blanket ban on computers connecting remotely would not work in a company that has a huge operations department who need to be on-call.

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            6 hours ago

            Ok, I understand that. But I didn’t say anything about either of those things.

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                6 hours ago

                I don’t know what comment exactly you’re referring to. So probably yes.
                Nothing I’ve said has been complicated or profound.