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Image Source : FILE Amazon mandated work from office for employees looking for promotions Amazon is implementing a stricter return-to-office policy which requires its corporate employees to be physically present in the office at least three days a week. This move comes with potential consequences for non-compliance, particularly affecting promotions.  Internal…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

“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…