The 159-page Senate report says Amazon’s policies, including productivity targets, risk worker injury owing to exhaustion and repetitive stress.
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The job cuts would mark the second largest round of layoffs in the company’s history, adding to the 18,000 employees the tech giant said it would lay off in January.
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For years, Amazon has been in super growth mode. But now, some projects are facing delays, and some communities worry the projects might never materialize.
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Amazon.com plans about the same number of seasonal workers as last year despite slowing sales and predictions of a lackluster holiday shopping season.
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The cases stem from two separate incidents in 2022, in which drivers were having trouble locating where to make deliveries at an Amazon fulfillment center in Mt. Comfort.
UPS anticipates closing 73 leased and owned buildings by the end of June.
Amazon aims to put more than 3,200 of the satellites into orbit to provide broadband service around the globe.
The ongoing progress to develop the planned LEAP Innovation and Research District, a 9,000-acre tech park in Boone County, was among the top local tech stories of 2024.
The company said the new Amazon Haul storefront will mostly feature products that cost less than $10 and offer free delivery on orders over $25.
Amazon expects to put 1,000 delivery vans that contain the Vision-Assisted Package Retrieval technology on the road by early next year.
Employees will start receiving Prime, Amazon’s speedy shipping and video subscription service, as part of their compensation beginning early next year, the company said.
Top-selling products included protein shakes, Amazon’s Fire TV Stick streaming device and Glad brand trash bags, according to Numerator.
Consumers reported losing about $10 billion to fraud in 2023, a 14% jump from 2022. Online shopping scams were the second most-reported form of fraud.
The company said Thursday that it’s already replaced 95% of the plastic air pillows with paper filler in North America and is working toward complete removal by year’s end.
Two law firms spearheading the action said about 15,860 Amazon Flex drivers have submitted arbitration claims with the American Arbitration Association, where 453 similar cases are already being litigated.
By the end of the decade, the company has a goal of delivering 500 million packages by drone every year.
Amazon is the second-largest private-sector employer in the U.S. behind Walmart Inc. and accounts for about 29% of the U.S. warehousing industry workforce, the researchers estimated.
Amid a shift in work habits prompted by the coronavirus pandemic and a squeeze in the tech industry, the downturn in hiring marks another setback in the boost Amazon had initially promised.
Under the terms of the restructuring agreement, Amazon will make a minority investment in Diamond and enter into a commercial arrangement to provide access to Diamond’s content via Prime Video.
Walmart, Target and Amazon are all-in on the shipping wars, a move retail experts say will help them maintain a competitive edge against low-cost Chinese retailers Shein and Temu.
The announcement on Thursday shows Amazon’s ambitions to grow its footprint through dealers in an industry that has strong lobbying forces and heavy state regulations.
The new model—designed to work as a rolling security guard—costs $750 more than the consumer version, which launched two years ago.
Amazon is accused of violating federal and state antitrust laws, but the company has responded with a full-throated defense of its business practices.
The long-awaited move seeks to bar the company from allegedly abusing its powers to raise prices for shoppers and levy high fees against businesses that sell on its platform.
