Amazon is trying to rehire workers it laid off, emails show

Sure, but they're still requiring you to be in the office. I'm in middle america because of family reasons, have a remote job and couldn't consider returning to AWS unless I could work remotely.

The article says Amazon is not looking to change its "Back to the Office" policy.

I agree... They realize they laid off the wrong mix of people, but they still haven't figured out one way of hiring qualified former employees is to allow people to work remotely.