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Photo: dvoevnore (Shutterstock)Amazon employees are petitioning CEO Andy Jassy to cancel his return-to-office mandate and calling out his about-face on remote work. In a petition to Jassy sent late Tuesday, Amazon workers decried that their trust in the company’s leaders had been “shattered.” After Jassy told workers in a memo last Friday that workers would be expected to return to the office for at least three days a week beginning May 1, employees began to mobilize in an effort to get him to change his mind. Since…

Work from home flexibility is coming to an end for Amazon employees. Though most of the company’s ~1.5 million full and part-time workers labor in warehouses or as delivery drivers—the e-commerce giant also employs hundreds of thousands of corporate and tech staff. After years of pandemic-induced policy allowing employees to telecommute, those desk-based workers will have to return in-person to Amazon offices at least three days per week, beginning May 1. The company’s CEO, Andy Jassy, announced the official change in a…

Amazon.com, the online retailer long feared to disrupt the grocery sector, believes it has fallen short.The company has paused expansion of its Fresh supermarkets and cashier-less convenience stores until it finds the right recipe for success, Chief Executive Andy Jassy said on Thursday, in a rare appearance on the company's quarterly results call.What the company needs is a distinctive store format that's doing well financially before embarking on a major expansion, a formula Amazon hopes to find this year, he said.The…

Theo Wayt / The Information: Source: Amazon is working on a standalone app for watching sports, decluttering the Prime Video app; Andy Jassy recently reaffirmed Amazon's video ambitions — Amazon is working on a stand-alone app for watching sports content, a source with direct knowledge of the plan told The Information. Theo Wayt / The Information: Source: Amazon is working on a standalone app for watching sports, decluttering the Prime Video app; Andy Jassy recently reaffirmed Amazon's video…

In Amazon’s view, customers don’t need disclaimers. They just need to read the reviews.Photo: David Ryder (Getty Images)Amazon’s CEO announced the company will not remove the antisemitic movie, Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America, from its store or include a disclaimer on the site explaining the context of the film’s discriminatory viewpoints. Instead, the company will rely on customer reviews about the movie as a form of content moderation. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy defended the company’s decision by sayingthat Amazon…

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…

Mr. Jassy, in a note to employees made public, said positions are being eliminated across Amazon’s devices and books businesses. The company is cutting jobs across its corporate ranks that could affect 10,000 employees, or 3% of corporate staff, The Wall Street Journal has reported. “I’ve been in this role now for about a year and a half, and without a doubt, this is the most difficult decision we’ve made during that time,” said Mr. Jassy, who spoke about the cuts for the first time on Thursday. “It’s not lost on me or…

Amazon's layoffs announced on Wednesday will continue into early 2023, CEO Andy Jassy said in a letter to employees posted yesterday. He said that the company "hired rapidly" over the last few years but "the economy remains in a challenging spot." With annual planning now extending into the new year, "there will be more role reductions as leaders continue to make adjustments," he added.  Jassy didn't say how many people would be laid off or when, but noted that there would be "reductions in our Stores and PXT…

Amazon layoffs by Jeff Bezos will surely upturn the tech landscape of the world Multinational tech giant Amazon plans to lay off around 10,000 people in its corporate and technology sectors starting as soon as this week, the New York Times reported. When executed, this would be the largest job cut in the company’s history. The job cuts are expected in Amazon’s devices organization, including the voice-assistant Alexa, as well as in its retail division and in human resources, said the report. Laying off around 10,000…

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is the definition of a company man. In an age when people switch jobs frequently, he has been at Amazon for 25 years, working his way up to president and CEO. But before he reached the corner office, he helped build Amazon Web Services, its cloud arm, into a $60 billion juggernaut. It wasn’t exactly a rise from the mailroom, but Jassy was there as founder Jeff Bezos’ aide-de-camp when they came up with the idea of AWS in the early 2000s at an executive offsite. He helped build it. He nurtured…