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Amazon Will Make Some Employees Relocate for Return to Office
23Jul By adminNo Comments
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Amazon Will Make Some Employees Relocate for Return to Office

[ad_1] Amazon.com Inc. will require some corporate employees to relocate as part of a mandate requiring workers to be in the office three days a week, according to people familiar with the matter, the latest source of strain between the tech giant and its workforce following layoffs that began last year.Who will have to relocate and when will be decided at the department level, said one of the people, who added that Amazon hasn't yet determined how many employees will be affected. Some remote workers who were hired or moved during the pandemic will have to relocate closer to offices so they can meet the three-day requirement, said the people, who requested anonymity to discuss an internal matter. “There's more energy, collaboration, and connections happening since we've been working tog...
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Amazon Kicks Off Round of Job Cuts Affecting 18,000 People
19Jan By adminNo Comments
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Amazon Kicks Off Round of Job Cuts Affecting 18,000 People

[ad_1] Amazon.com Inc.  has started its biggest-ever round of jobs cuts  — a culling that will ultimately affect 18,000 workers around the globe. Amazon.com Inc. has started its biggest-ever round of jobs cuts — a culling that will ultimately affect 18,000 workers around the globe. Amazon began notifying employees by email early Wednesday, Doug Herrington, the company's worldwide retail chief, said in a memo. He said the company aimed to communicate with all laid-off workers in the US, Canada and Costa Rica by the end of the day. Notifications in China will be sent after the Chinese New Year, and in other regions the company must consult with employee representatives before finalizing layoffs. The world's largest e-commerce company is grappling with slowing online sales growth an...
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Amazon HR staffers turn from hiring to seeking jobs themselves
16Jan By adminNo Comments
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Amazon HR staffers turn from hiring to seeking jobs themselves

[ad_1] With job cuts mounting across the tech industry and beyond, even recruiters at Amazon are turning on green LinkedIn 'open to work' badges before they've been formally laid off. With job cuts mounting across tech, finance and other industries, why wait to get fired when you can skip directly to being hired? The move, called “career cushioning,” involves lining up a plan B while still fully employed, especially when job cuts are imminent. This is usually done discreetly — perhaps a networking call taken during lunch, or taking the time to connect with old colleagues. Some Amazon.com Inc. employees are taking it one step further, publicly posting that they are #OpenToWork on LinkedIn while still employed by the company. It's all out there for everyone, ...
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In Shock Move, Amazon Is Shuttering Some India Businesses
28Nov By adminNo Comments
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In Shock Move, Amazon Is Shuttering Some India Businesses

[ad_1] Amazon.com Inc. will wind down parts of its Indian operations, showing that even the crucial growth market isn’t immune to CEO Andy Jassy’s cost-reduction campaign. Amazon.com Inc. will wind down parts of its Indian operations, showing that even the crucial growth market with 1.4 billion consumers isn't immune to Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy's cost-reduction campaign. The company said it is exiting meal deliveries as well as a service providing bulk doorstep deliveries of packaged consumer goods to small businesses. The exits will involve layoffs of just several hundred out of a workforce of thousands, leaving Amazon relying on its core offerings such as online retail in the country, according to a person familiar with the matter. Jassy is reducing expenses and jobs ...
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Amazon Ordered to Cease and Desist Retaliating Against Activists
19Nov By adminNo Comments
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Amazon Ordered to Cease and Desist Retaliating Against Activists

[ad_1] Amazon.com Inc. must cease and desist from retaliating against employees for workplace activism, a New York federal judge. Amazon.com Inc. must cease and desist from retaliating against employees for workplace activism, a New York federal judge ordered Friday. The ruling requires Amazon to distribute the order to employees at a Staten Island warehouse and to read it to them at a meeting, but US district judge Diane Gujarati denied a request for an injunction to reinstate a fired activist made by the National Labor Relations Board. The mixed ruling by the Eastern District of New York comes nearly two years after the NLRB hit Amazon with an unfair labor practice complaint for firing Gerald Bryson in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Neither Amazon nor the NLRB responded to...
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Andy Jassy Shocker on Amazon Job Cuts
18Nov By adminNo Comments
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Andy Jassy Shocker on Amazon Job Cuts

[ad_1] Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the e-commerce giant will be cutting jobs into 2023 as it adjusts to business conditions. Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy said the e-commerce giant will be cutting jobs into 2023 as it adjusts to business conditions, his first public comments about the cost-reduction plans roiling Amazon since reports that it planned to wipe out about 10,000 jobs.“Leaders across the company are working with their teams and looking at their workforce levels, investments they want to make in the future, and prioritizing what matters most to customers and the long-term health of our businesses,” Jassy said Thursday in the statement. “This year's review is more difficult due to the fact that the economy remains in a challenging spot and we've hired rapi...
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Amazon Employees Fear ‘No One Is Safe’ as Layoffs Roil the Ranks
17Nov By adminNo Comments
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Amazon Employees Fear ‘No One Is Safe’ as Layoffs Roil the Ranks

[ad_1] “No one is safe.” So wrote an Amazon.com Inc. employee on an internal chat room as the company began the largest round of layoffs in its history. The mood, especially in the hard-hit devices team, reflected the shock and dismay of people more accustomed to growing budgets and moonshots than talk of recession and austerity.  Devices chief Dave Limp, in a note to his team on Wednesday, said the firings pained him. He pledged severance payments for people who can't find other jobs inside the company. But for many recipients his note was little consolation, and some wondered why Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy, considered by some a gentler touch than predecessor Jeff Bezos, hadn't addressed the troops the way Mark Zuckerberg did when announcing job cuts at Meta Platforms Inc.  La...
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Amazon Workers Abandon California Union Election Plan After Loss
25Oct By adminNo Comments
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Amazon Workers Abandon California Union Election Plan After Loss

[ad_1] Amazon.com Inc. workers seeking to join a union at a company warehouse in Southern California have backed away. Amazon.com Inc. workers seeking to join a union at a company warehouse in Southern California have backed away from their attempt to hold an election, a setback for the upstart Amazon Labor Union following its defeat at a New York facility last week. The union withdrew its petition for an election at a warehouse in Moreno Valley, California, according to a National Labor Relations Board docket that includes a letter, dated Friday, approving a request to stop the vote. Unions that make such requests aren't asked to give a reason, NLRB spokesperson Kayla Blado said. Amazon Labor Union organizers didn't respond to messages seeking comment. The union won an election ...
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