Amazon cuts jobs in Sustainability department

According to an internal memo seen by TechCrunch, Amazon is eliminating a small number of roles in its communication and sustainable departments.

According to the memo, these cuts are related to Amazon’s controversial return in office policy. In September, Amazon’s CEO Andy Jasi Informed Staff that they will expect Come back to the office Started five days per week in 2025, but the decision started Blowback From the staff.

“We have identified some roles that were very narrowly scoop or introduced it unnecessary layers, where we cannot solve the challenge by placing the structure or transferring work pressure,” wrote the SVP Drau Herdener in the techCrunch memo. “To address this and to do the right thing for the business, we are eliminating a few numbers in communication and sustainability.”

Herdener mentions the recent meeting with Jassi, where the CEO says that reduce the headcount of the company is not aiming to restructure the workforce; Herdener claims that the overall headcount of its category will remain unchanged after the Amazon rehabilitation for these some of these roles at the lower level.

Arriving at TechCrunch, Amazon spokesman Brad Glasser refused to tell TechCrunch how many of the work had been deleted. The prescribed employees will receive “financial support, benefits continuity and job space determination” according to the memo.

These cuts of durability and corporate responsibility come less than two weeks after the opening of President Donald Trump. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was one Closed-up seat At the inauguration, behind Trump and other technologies like Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Mask and Sergey Brin were sitting along the billionaire. Bezos, like the founders of other prominent technologies, donated $ 1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund.

Amazon’s trims from a reconstruction project that starts before Trump’s election. However, relations between Bezos and the new administration may be a refuge for future corporate movements in Amazon. Amazon has already canceled something since Trump took over Variations and inclusion initiativesWhich also targeted the new administration.

Trump’s administration has already reversed the sustainable initiative at a federal level. So far, the President has withdrawn the United States from the Paris Agreement, an international agreement to address climate change. Even he has made a declaration National urgent In order to promote Production Fossil fuels, contrary to more sustainable energy sources.

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