It resulted not only in the huge layoffs round across the company’s advertising, HR, gaming and AWS divisions among others, but entire programs being shut down including Amazon Smile and Amazon Care. In a statement, Amazon said “We respect our employees’ rights to express their opinions.” An Amazon spokesperson, Rob Munoz, said the company has “had a great few weeks with more employees in the office.” Amazon’s cost-cutting bonanza bites backĪmazon has been undertaking several cost-saving measures in a bid to reel back the heavy spending from the pandemic, when everyone was at home and ordering packages.

In short, there’s a lot for Amazon’s corporate employees not to be very happy about. It was the largest layoff round Amazon has ever conducted in its 29-year history. At the time Jassy said the mandate would help with collaboration and be a “boost for the thousands of businesses located around our urban headquarter locations.”Īmazon workers are also protesting the layoffs that have taken place in the last year, with the e-commerce giant slashing 27,000 roles across two separate announcements. The protestors want Amazon’s climate impact to be “at the forefront of decision-making” and argue the back-to-work mandate doesn’t help to achieve the company’s climate change goals.īack in February, CEO Andy Jassy announced Amazon employees were expected to be in the office three days a week, with the policy taking effect at the start of May.

The walk-out was organized by Amazon Employees for Climate Justice and a remote work advocacy group.

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