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Amazon Offers ‘Voluntary Severance’ to Employees Who Resign Amid Ongoing Layoffs
Amazon sent a letter to some of its employees this week offering a buyout program if they voluntarily resigned. The proposal is a “voluntary severance” that would provide employees with three months’ pay if they selected to leave the company amidst mass layoffs at the company.
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Jeff Bezos Is Sending His Girlfriend to Space as Amazon Plans to Lay Off 10,000 Workers
Amazon is set to scrap about 10,000 employees starting this week, according to a report from the New York Times which cites multiple unnamed sources and follows days of speculation about coming cuts. The lay offs will reportedly target the company’s device sector, responsible for voice-assistant Alexa, plus the retail division and human resources, according…
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Amazon’s Response to Mauled Driver? A Paw Print Emoji
Amazon, a company famously known for its tact and grace when dealing with workplace hardships said this week it would start placing puppy paw print icons on delivery routes days after one of its drivers was allegedly mauled to death while delivering a package.
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Amazon Makes Creepy Surveillance Robot Even Creepier With Yet More Ring Integration
Ever since Amazon launched Astro — its stout, doe-eyed, autonomously mobile domestic robot — its been a curious sight to behold. When first unveiled last summer, a wealth of tech journos rushed to call the bot “cute” while others, myself included, found it creepy. All of us, however, were basically left wondering what the point…