Interesting News Item
Some national news streams are reporting the following. May confirm wy many sellers beliwve theyhardly ever interact with real people on the platform
"The world's biggest online retailer is set to sack 30,000 staff – the largest cull in history. Just months after already showing the door to 14,000 members of its workforce in October, Amazon is now set to get rid of more than double that in one go.
And according to several reports, the mass-sacking could take place as early as today. Cuts are being blamed on artificial intelligence, with less human staff said to be needed across its Amazon Web Services, retail, Prime Video and – ironically – Human Resources departments.
The cuts amount to around 10% of the company's global workforce, although Amazon has not yet commented directly on the claims."
Interesting News Item
Some national news streams are reporting the following. May confirm wy many sellers beliwve theyhardly ever interact with real people on the platform
"The world's biggest online retailer is set to sack 30,000 staff – the largest cull in history. Just months after already showing the door to 14,000 members of its workforce in October, Amazon is now set to get rid of more than double that in one go.
And according to several reports, the mass-sacking could take place as early as today. Cuts are being blamed on artificial intelligence, with less human staff said to be needed across its Amazon Web Services, retail, Prime Video and – ironically – Human Resources departments.
The cuts amount to around 10% of the company's global workforce, although Amazon has not yet commented directly on the claims."
5 replies
Seller_64pBXNhiTt31p
With the new ridiculous compliance and testing policy and ai bots running rampant and ruining listings forcing sellers to leave, Amazon is going to crash and burn in the near future I guarentee it.
Seller_ZVAz3d5lZuGid
Yes, @Seller_2MDS66zdjPMUU - somone else has just posted that on another thread - this one:
https://sellercentral.amazon.co.uk/seller-forums/discussions/t/e447d939-2b2e-4fcc-a02e-df90ae21c5a9?
Seller_19xPhE8YgkmxW
Hi Pashmina_Silk1,
"Amazon has told workers of a fresh round of global job cuts in an email that appears to have been sent in error.
Workers at Amazon Web Services (AWS) received a meeting invitation from a top executive on Tuesday for the following day – subsequently cancelled – that also contained a draft email.
The message erroneously said the affected employees in the US, Canada and Costa Rica had already been told they had lost their jobs.
It was signed by Colleen Aubrey, a senior vice-president of applied AI solutions at the company’s cloud computing arm AWS, while the layoffs were referred to in the email as “Project Dawn”.
“Changes like this are h*rd on everyone,” Aubrey wrote in the email, which was seen by multiple news outlets including Reuters and Bloomberg. “These decisions are difficult and are made thoughtfully as we position our organisation and AWS for future success.”
The email referred to a separate message from Amazon’s human resources boss, which did not appear to have been sent.
Amazon had announced in October it was cutting 14,000 corporate roles. In recent days, several media outlets had reported that the Seattle-based online retail multinational was planning a second round of layoffs, but this has not been confirmed by the company.
Amazon has been trying to reverse a pandemic hiring spree in an effort to cut costs and slim down its huge operation, which employs about 1.5 million people worldwide. Its cloud computing and stores units were reported to be the divisions that would be hit in the latest round of layoffs.
Amazon’s chief executive, Andy Jassy, has previously warned white-collar workers at the company that their jobs could be taken by AI in the next few years.
Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment."
All Best
Brian
PS Apparently the phrase "h*rd on" is Inappropriate Language
Seller_npJBKyW0TCo4M
They should get rid of all the people answering emails on the Seller Central help page. In 10+ years, they never addressed the issue correctly, just copied and pasted a template.
On the other hand, if you are lucky enough to chat with a human, they are usually helpful, so don't fire them, Jeff.
