Amazon is ordering its staff back to the office five days a week, just as the government is pushing for rights to flexible working - including working from home - to be strengthened. Few are short of an opinion on how effective working from home is and for a government there are broader considerations such as how,

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol thinks his employees should be wherever they need to be to get their jobs done. More often than not, he said, that place is the office.

While Amazon's Andy Jassy got criticized for his order to resume a five-day week in the office, incoming Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol encouraged full-week presence--but will let employees decide for themselves.