Laszlo Bock said Andy Jassy's drive to get Amazon workers in the office every day was a triumph of "traditional management over innovative management."

The tech behemoth's decision flies against standard industry procedure, leading many employees and strategy experts to express discontent.

Laszlo Bock, consultant and former Google senior executive, likened Andy Jassy’s demand that Amazon employees spend five days a week in the office to ordering the usual at a restaurant. Say the hamburger is your pick of choice at the regular joint and you all of a sudden go for the grilled chicken,

Amazon is raising the pay of its hourly warehouse workers and tacking on Prime memberships to their benefit package.

Amazon.com Inc. is raising pay for fulfillment and transportation workers by $1.50 an hour starting this month, raising the base wage to more than $22 an hour, or $3,000 a year on average for full-time employees who work a 40-hour week.