Amazon is giving some workers a selection: relocate or resign.
Bloomberg stories that Amazon is ordering hundreds of employees on a number of U.S. groups to maneuver to primary hubs in Seattle, Washington; Arlington, Virginia; and Washington, D.C. Amazon has 1.56 million full-time and part-time workers unfold throughout its world enterprise, together with 350,000 company employees.
The hassle to get some workers to relocate has been going down “for greater than a yr now,” as “some groups have been working to deliver their teammates nearer collectively to assist them be as efficient as potential,” an Amazon spokesperson instructed Bloomberg.
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One Amazon worker shared within the firm’s inside messaging platform, in messages seen by Bloomberg, that their supervisor gave them 30 days to resolve whether or not to relocate or resign. That they had 60 days after that to start the relocation course of or to go away the corporate — and in the event that they selected the latter, they might not obtain severance pay.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. Picture by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Photographs
The mandate signifies that some employees must transfer throughout the nation. As an alternative of rolling out the requirement by means of mass emails, Amazon is informing workers that they need to relocate by means of one-on-one conferences and city halls.
Amazon employees already face uncertainty about their jobs being changed within the subsequent few years by AI. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy despatched a memo to workers earlier this week that he expects Amazon’s workforce to lower “within the subsequent few years” as AI automates duties, prompting issues from workers about potential layoffs within the coming years. Amazon is presently utilizing AI in its warehouses to enhance supply velocity and has given its customer support chatbot AI capabilities.
Amazon is spending closely on AI, and plans to maintain investing within the expertise. In a quarterly earnings name in February, the corporate disclosed that it plans to spend about $105 billion in capital expenditure this yr, with most spending going in direction of AI.
Earlier this yr, Amazon started requiring workers to work within the workplace 5 days per week, main some to search for different jobs with distant work choices. Amazon has laid off greater than 27,000 workers since 2022 to chop prices.
Amazon is giving some workers a selection: relocate or resign.
Bloomberg stories that Amazon is ordering hundreds of employees on a number of U.S. groups to maneuver to primary hubs in Seattle, Washington; Arlington, Virginia; and Washington, D.C. Amazon has 1.56 million full-time and part-time workers unfold throughout its world enterprise, together with 350,000 company employees.
The hassle to get some workers to relocate has been going down “for greater than a yr now,” as “some groups have been working to deliver their teammates nearer collectively to assist them be as efficient as potential,” an Amazon spokesperson instructed Bloomberg.
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