Washington Post employees must get back to the office or resign

The Washington Post is giving its employees an offer they may be unable to refuse: come back to work at the office five days a week or submit a resignation. The storied media outlet will no longer accept a blended work schedule with employees dividing their hours between home and the office, The New York Post reported.

The newspaper revealed how employees were reacting to the previously-announced demand that staff return to the office as it encouraged them to ask questions about the new policy, which was revealed after a bout of navel-gazing at the outlet when owner Jeff Bezos squashed the editorial board's planned endorsement of Kamala Harris for president. 

One employee asked, “What would you say to a person who does not wish to return to a 5-day a week office schedule?”

“If an employee decides they do not wish to return to work at The Post on a 5-day a week office schedule, we understand and will accept their resignation,” was the response, first noted by Semafor media reporter Maxwell Tani.

Bezos' decision not to endorse Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris apparently resulted in the loss of over 200,000 subscribers, or about 8 percent of his paid circulation of 2.5 million people. Bezos claimed he made the decision because so many Americans do not trust the mainstream media. “Our profession is now the least trusted of all," he wrote. One way that Bezos wants to increase the credibility of the liberal WaPo is to hire more conservative columnists.

Bezos was quick to congratulate President-elect Donald Trump on his “extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory” on Nov. 5.