Amazon employees stage walkout at HQ over frustrations with leadership

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Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) employees followed through with a planned walkout on Wednesday, airing frustrations with the company's recent decisions to bring employees back to the office, conduct layoffs and backslide on sustainability promises.

Almost 2,000 employees signed a pledge to walk out, with fewer than half based in the Puget Sound region.

At Amazon's headquarters campus in Seattle's Denny Triangle neighborhood, up to a few hundred protesters gathered at the peak of the demonstration. Employees and other attendees crowded the space between the Spheres and Day 1 tower carrying signs focused mainly on the in-person work policy enacted earlier this month and the company's recently dropped "Shipment Zero" pledge, in which the company aimed to make half of its shipments carbon neutral by 2030.

Amazon has roughly 65,000 employees based in the Puget Sound region, about 55,000 of whom are based in Seattle.

https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2023/05/31/amazon-walkout-headquarters-rto-layoffs-climate.html

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1. Amazon needs to take care of its people; bots have about ruined it.

I'm sick of dealing with "digital assistants", from Amazon to Verizon.