Amazon's drone delivery division
Amazon's drone delivery division Prime Air has reportedly been hit hard. According to reports, employees in the drone delivery department's design, maintenance, systems engineering, flight testing and flight operations teams are said to have been laid off. Workers at multiple locations have been dismissed, it has been claimed, including at Amazon's Seattle headquarters and a drone testing facility in Oregon. CEO Andy Jassy said in early January that the company was “prioritizing what matters most to customers and the long-term health of our businesses.”
Amazon hardware
The head of Amazon’s hardware division confirmed that the tech giant is cutting jobs. Dave Limp, who leads the company’s Devices & Services organization, told his team in a note. “It pains me to have to deliver this news as we know we will lose talented Amazonians from the Devices & Services org as a result,” Limp wrote in a note to staff shared by Amazon. “While I know this news is tough to digest, I do want to emphasize that the Devices & Services organization remains an important area of investment for Amazon, and we will continue to invent on behalf of our customers.”
Amazon is closing all its physical bookstores and '4-star' shops
Amazon has been rethinking its retail ambitions after years of expansion. Last year, the company said that it was closing all 68 of its physical bookstores, pop-up locations and 4-star shops in the US and UK. The company maintained in a statement to the New York Times that in-person retail was still important and that it would focus on its cashierless Just Walk Out tech and its grocery stores.
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