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End Of Human Delivery Workers? Amazon Testing Humanoid Robots That 'Spring Out' Of Vans
Amazon has already built a "humanoid park" at its San Francisco office to test the delivery robots.
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'Amazon Is Laying Me Off, But Manager Asked Me To Resign': Reddit Post Goes Viral
An Amazon employee took to Reddit to share his struggle after finding himself in a tough spot when his manager told him that he is going to be terminated in the coming days.
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Salesforce Said to Cut 1,000 Roles While Hiring Salespeople for AI
Salesforce is announcing lay-offs as it prepares to enter a new fiscal year. More than 1,000 roles will be affected and displaced workers will be able to apply for other jobs internally. The company has also been keeping a closer eye on maintaining profit margins after pressure from activist investors in 2023.
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Amazon Workers On Strike In US: Will It Impact Christmas Deliveries? An Explainer
The strike was launched after Amazon ignored the deadline to negotiate new contracts for higher wages, better benefits and safer working conditions.
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8-Year-Old Girl In US Fights Off Armed Robber With Baseball Bat
An 8-year-old girl in the US recently managed to thwart a robbery at her father's liquor store after she repeatedly beat the man with a baseball bat.
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Amazon India Workers Take Oath To Finish Task Before Toilet Break: Report
Amazon India finds itself under scrutiny after allegations of harsh working conditions and stringent productivity demands surfaced from workers at its warehouses in Haryana's industrial hub of Manesar.
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How 10-Minute Delivery Apps Are Challenging Amazon, Flipkart In E-Commerce
In a middle-class suburb of Mumbai, workers at SoftBank-backed Swiggy's grocery warehouse race against time to deliver orders within 10 minutes. Their speed is tracked by the seconds on a screen that flashes red warnings for slowness.
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US Man Disguises Himself As Amazon Worker, Steals $35,000 In Robbery Spree
A burglar who disguised himself as an Amazon delivery worker has ripped off $35,000 in jewellery and valuables, including cash stashed for a 12-year-old, during a robbery spree in New York City that has been going on for months.
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Amazon Fined $34 Million In France For "Excessive" Surveillance Of Workers
France's data protection agency said Tuesday that it had fined Amazon's French warehouses unit 32 million euros ($34.9 million) for an "excessively intrusive" surveillance system to keep track of staff performance.
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Amazon Employee Fired After He Complained About Lifting Heavy Boxes On TikTok
The video in question was posted on December 6 where he said that he worked an extra shift and was given the job of a picker at Amazon warehouse.
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Amazon's Livestreaming Platform Twitch To Layoff 500 Employees
Amazon.com Inc.'s livestreaming site Twitch is poised to cut 35% of its staff, or about 500 workers, according to people familiar with the plans, the latest in a series of job reductions there.
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Amazon Workers In Europe Protest Against Company During Black Friday Sales
Amazon workers came out on strike at multiple locations across Europe on Friday as protests against the US e-commerce giant's working practices picked up pace on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
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Amazon Devices Unit Morale Suffers Amid Staff Cuts, Shaky Development Pipeline
Some workers within Amazon’s once-storied hardware division – responsible for popular devices like the Kindle reader and Echo voice-assistant – say morale within the division has suffered amid staff cutbacks and a pipeline of devices in development that they fear are unlikely to prove hits.
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Leave Or Stay? Residents Of US 'Zoom Towns' In Dilemma After Layoffs
Amazon's decision to eliminate tens of thousands of jobs, part of the wave of hundreds of thousands of cuts at firms across the US this year, is forcing remote workers to make hard choices.
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Amazon Still Seems Hell Bent on Turning Workers Into Robots - Here’s a Better Way Forward
Amazon has seen hundreds of workers strike at its Coventry warehouse in the UK, as employees push back against long hours and a surveillance system that records the time taken to do each task, as well as going to the toilet. Here's how Amazon can improve work quality without turning its workers into robots.
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End Of Human Delivery Workers? Amazon Testing Humanoid Robots That 'Spring Out' Of Vans
Amazon has already built a "humanoid park" at its San Francisco office to test the delivery robots.
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'Amazon Is Laying Me Off, But Manager Asked Me To Resign': Reddit Post Goes Viral
An Amazon employee took to Reddit to share his struggle after finding himself in a tough spot when his manager told him that he is going to be terminated in the coming days.
-
Salesforce Said to Cut 1,000 Roles While Hiring Salespeople for AI
Salesforce is announcing lay-offs as it prepares to enter a new fiscal year. More than 1,000 roles will be affected and displaced workers will be able to apply for other jobs internally. The company has also been keeping a closer eye on maintaining profit margins after pressure from activist investors in 2023.
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Amazon Workers On Strike In US: Will It Impact Christmas Deliveries? An Explainer
The strike was launched after Amazon ignored the deadline to negotiate new contracts for higher wages, better benefits and safer working conditions.
-
8-Year-Old Girl In US Fights Off Armed Robber With Baseball Bat
An 8-year-old girl in the US recently managed to thwart a robbery at her father's liquor store after she repeatedly beat the man with a baseball bat.
-
Amazon India Workers Take Oath To Finish Task Before Toilet Break: Report
Amazon India finds itself under scrutiny after allegations of harsh working conditions and stringent productivity demands surfaced from workers at its warehouses in Haryana's industrial hub of Manesar.
-
How 10-Minute Delivery Apps Are Challenging Amazon, Flipkart In E-Commerce
In a middle-class suburb of Mumbai, workers at SoftBank-backed Swiggy's grocery warehouse race against time to deliver orders within 10 minutes. Their speed is tracked by the seconds on a screen that flashes red warnings for slowness.
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US Man Disguises Himself As Amazon Worker, Steals $35,000 In Robbery Spree
A burglar who disguised himself as an Amazon delivery worker has ripped off $35,000 in jewellery and valuables, including cash stashed for a 12-year-old, during a robbery spree in New York City that has been going on for months.
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Amazon Fined $34 Million In France For "Excessive" Surveillance Of Workers
France's data protection agency said Tuesday that it had fined Amazon's French warehouses unit 32 million euros ($34.9 million) for an "excessively intrusive" surveillance system to keep track of staff performance.
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Amazon Employee Fired After He Complained About Lifting Heavy Boxes On TikTok
The video in question was posted on December 6 where he said that he worked an extra shift and was given the job of a picker at Amazon warehouse.
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Amazon's Livestreaming Platform Twitch To Layoff 500 Employees
Amazon.com Inc.'s livestreaming site Twitch is poised to cut 35% of its staff, or about 500 workers, according to people familiar with the plans, the latest in a series of job reductions there.
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Amazon Workers In Europe Protest Against Company During Black Friday Sales
Amazon workers came out on strike at multiple locations across Europe on Friday as protests against the US e-commerce giant's working practices picked up pace on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
-
Amazon Devices Unit Morale Suffers Amid Staff Cuts, Shaky Development Pipeline
Some workers within Amazon’s once-storied hardware division – responsible for popular devices like the Kindle reader and Echo voice-assistant – say morale within the division has suffered amid staff cutbacks and a pipeline of devices in development that they fear are unlikely to prove hits.
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Leave Or Stay? Residents Of US 'Zoom Towns' In Dilemma After Layoffs
Amazon's decision to eliminate tens of thousands of jobs, part of the wave of hundreds of thousands of cuts at firms across the US this year, is forcing remote workers to make hard choices.
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Amazon Still Seems Hell Bent on Turning Workers Into Robots - Here’s a Better Way Forward
Amazon has seen hundreds of workers strike at its Coventry warehouse in the UK, as employees push back against long hours and a surveillance system that records the time taken to do each task, as well as going to the toilet. Here's how Amazon can improve work quality without turning its workers into robots.
