TikTok will require most US employees to return to the office five days a week starting September, three staffers told Business Insider. The mandate follows a broader tech industry push for in-person work, with Oracle among TikTok's US investors.
TikTok will require most US employees to come into the office five days a week, starting next month. Three staffers told Business Insider the mandate takes effect in September.
The shift will upend schedules for hybrid teams that currently work from home at least one day a week. Some groups already follow a five-day schedule. TikTok's e-commerce division, TikTok Shop, has been in the office every day for more than a year, the staffers said.
The company's return-to-office plans have been in the works since December, when TikTok told employees across product, marketing, and ad sales teams to expect a full office return in 2026. That timeline has now moved up.
TikTok joins a growing list of tech and media companies pushing for in-person attendance. Instagram and Amazon both require many staffers to be at their desks five days a week. YouTube and Patreon maintain hybrid schedules, asking for three days in the office. Spotify has kept a flexible work policy, and Dropbox's new co-CEO Ashraf Alkarmi told Business Insider he plans to stay "virtual-first," calling flexibility "the ultimate currency in modern work."
TikTok operates offices in about a dozen US cities, including New York, Austin, Los Angeles, and Chicago. The company employs thousands in the US through a joint venture that includes its parent ByteDance and a mix of investors such as Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX. Some functions like US e-commerce and marketing are run by TikTok's global team inside ByteDance, while divisions focused on data protection and content moderation operate separately under the joint venture.
Oracle, one of the investors in TikTok's US structure, carries an Alpha Score of 41 out of 100, a Mixed label from AlphaScala's proprietary model. The score reflects the stock's neutral positioning amid sector-wide shifts in enterprise cloud demand.
TikTok did not respond to a request for comment.
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