2023-01-05
So that Amazon layoff # everyone been wondering about is 18,000, about 5% of its corporate workforce and about 1% of its global workforce which is mostly hourly warehouse employees whose numbers get culled every year after Christmas. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Amazon plans to lay off 18,000+ employees, more than its initial target of 10,000 in November 2022, with the “majority” coming from retail and recruiting
Cuts focused on the company's corporate staff exceed earlier projection — Amazon AMZN -0.79%decrease …
2022-10-05
Remember Amazon Glow? Neither did I. That's probably why Amazon is shutting down this kids' video calling device and telling the people who worked on it to apply for other jobs in the company. @mattmday https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg
Amazon discontinues Glow, its video calling device aimed at kids, amid lackluster sales and a shift in consumer behavior after debuting the $300 product in 2021
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2022-07-10
Looks like $139 a year for Amazon Prime is a bit much for some folks. Growth stagnated in the US so far this year. They had to hit the ceiling eventually. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg
CIRP: the number of US Amazon Prime members remained at ~172M as of June 30, the same as six months earlier, after Amazon raised prices in February 2022
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg : Tweets: @spencersoper Tweets: @spencersoper : Looks like $139 a year for Amazon Prime is a bit much for some folks. Growth stagnated in the US so far t...
2022-07-09
Looks like $139 a year for Amazon Prime is a bit much for some folks. Growth stagnated in the US so far this year. They had to hit the ceiling eventually. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg
CIRP: the number of Amazon Prime members in the US remained at 172M as of June 30, the same as six months earlier, after Amazon raised prices in February 2022
Amazon.com Inc.'s number of Prime members in the US stagnated in the first half of the year, suggesting a $20 annual price increase … Tweets: @rakeshlobster and @spencersoper Tweet...
2022-04-28
Amazon will permanently let warehouse employees keep their cell phones with them at work. It relaxed an earlier cell phone ban during the pandemic and was thinking of resuming it, but workers came unglued: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
VICE
Internal email: Amazon now permanently lets its warehouse workers keep their cell phones while they work, after temporarily lifting its ban during the pandemic
The concession to warehouse workers follows the first union victory at an Amazon warehouse in US history. — Lauren Kaori Gurley
2022-01-25
Updates on Amazon union drive in Bessemer, Alabama. More than 6,100 workers are eligible to vote in the redo election, and nearly half of them are new workers who didn't participate in the last election. That's a lot of new votes that could change outcome. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg
Union officials say nearly half of the 6,143 Amazon workers eligible to vote in Bessemer, Alabama are new; ballots are due on March 28
Nearly half of the 6,143 Amazon.com Inc. warehouse workers eligible to vote in a union re-do election in the coming weeks in Bessemer, Alabama … Tweets: @basche42 , @spencersoper ,...
2021-06-29
Worried a robot will take your job? What if a robot became your boss and fired you? Welcome to the present at #amazon, where millions of delivery drivers are managed by machines. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg
Interviews with 15 Amazon Flex drivers reveal how algorithms hire, rate, and fire contract drivers with little or no human oversight
2021-06-17
Big news from @Amazon today: The fake customer reviews you've been reading about forever are an actual thing. They're doing the best they can, but they need social media platforms to be more responsive and they need help from regulators around the world. https://www.aboutamazon.com/ ...
The Guardian
Amazon blames social media companies for its failure to remove fake reviews, saying they let bad actors use their platforms to buy and sell fake product reviews
2021-04-17
NEW: Amazon is rolling out a new furniture assembly service in an effort to catch Wayfair in the booming online furniture market: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg
Sources: Amazon is planning a furniture service that would require drivers to assemble items and take them back on the spot if the customer isn't satisfied
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg :
Updated: Amazon's new furniture assembly service, which will have delivery drivers double as furniture assemblers, has drivers worried about customers lurking over them during a pandemic and a lack or training and guidelines about what is expected: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg
Sources: Amazon is planning a furniture service that would require drivers to assemble items and take them back on the spot if the customer isn't satisfied
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg :
2020-04-23
Sounds like this coronavirus thing is really gettin' serious: “Eventually, he held the calls daily, including on weekends.” https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Jeff Bezos, who sources say only worked on projects that posed a major risk to the company, has taken an active leadership role at Amazon amid COVID-19
The chief executive, who had distanced himself from day-to-day management, is closely involved in the company's response to the pandemic.
2020-03-17
The hiring comes as coronavirus spreads through Amazon facilities in Europe and confusion and fear hits its delivery network in the US: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
TechCrunch
Amazon to prioritize shipments of household staples and other high-demand products, partially suspending its Fulfillment by Amazon program through April 5
Amazon's ‘Fulfillment by Amazon’ (FBA) program, through which it provides warehousing and shipment services for products from third-party sellers …
The hiring comes as coronavirus spreads through Amazon facilities in Europe and confusion and fear hits its delivery network in the US: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg
Amazon confirms at least five workers at its warehouses in Spain and Italy have tested positive for the coronavirus, says the facilities will remain open
At least five workers at Amazon.com Inc. warehouses in Europe have contracted the coronavirus, a sobering development …
2020-02-16
Amazon severs ties with a big delivery service partner and hundreds of drivers in five states will lose their jobs, a red flag for anyone thinking about building a business that is overly reliant on Amazon: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg
Amazon is cutting ties with small delivery firms in the US because they don't meet its delivery standards, putting at least 1,300 drivers out of work
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2020-02-15
Amazon severs ties with a big delivery service partner and hundreds of drivers in five states will lose their jobs, a red flag for anyone thinking about building a business that is overly reliant on Amazon: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg
Amazon is cutting ties with small delivery firms in the US because they don't meet its delivery standards, putting at least 1,300 drivers out of work
- Illinois, Washington and Kansas firms are among those culled — About 1,300 drivers in several states will lose their jobs
2019-12-05
Amazon's antitrust issues not limited to e-commerce. Regulator interest spreading to its cloud computing division Amazon Web Services. https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
Sources: FTC investigators, who have been looking into Amazon's e-commerce business, have begun asking software companies about Amazon's practices around AWS
- FTC said to broaden Amazon inquiry beyond online retail — Amazon's cloud business leads market over No. 2 Microsoft