Jassy added that the company would offer redundancy packages that included a payment, transitional health insurance and external job placement support.Amazon offers a variety of competitive compensation and benefits packages for remote workers. Once those decisions have been made (our goal is to have this complete by mid to late April), we will communicate with the impacted employees (or where applicable in Europe, with employee representative bodies).” “The same is true for this note as the impacted teams are not yet finished making final decisions on precisely which roles will be impacted. The short answer is that not all of the teams were done with their analyses in the late fall and rather than rush through these assessments without the appropriate diligence, we chose to share these decisions as we’ve made them so people had the information as soon as possible.

The email said: “Some may ask why we didn’t announce these role reductions with the ones we announced a couple months ago. He said “re-prioritisation decisions” had been made, which sometimes led to role reductions, but also led to moving people from one role to another. However, given the uncertain economy in which we reside, and the uncertainty that exists in the near future, we have chosen to be more streamlined in our costs and headcount.” This made sense given what was happening in our businesses and the economy as a whole. Jassy’s email to employees said: “For several years leading up to this one, most of our businesses added a significant amount of headcount. The risk of overlooking disability in redundancyĪmazon redundancies: is big tech facing a big shrink?

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