Amazon workers in the US are being tracked and penalized for not spending sufficient time in the company’s offices, an email sent to employees this week revealed, as tech companies push back against work-from-home practices that flourished during the pandemic. … Read more
Image Credit: Getty Images Amazon hired at least two union-busting consulting firms specifically to prevent its drivers from joining the International Brotherhood of Teamsters over the course of 2022, according to six reports filed to the Department of Labor and … Read more
Photographer: Thorsten Wagner/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday sued Amazon, alleging the nation’s dominant online retailer intentionally duped millions of consumers into signing up for its mainstay Prime program and … Read more
A report from Japanese magazine Shūkan Bunshun says that in the leadup to the release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom earlier this month two men—in isolated cases—got contract jobs at Amazon for the express purpose of … Read more
Amazon scrapped its Shipment Zero initiative, which was announced a few years ago. The company is rolling the goal into a broader Climate Pledge. Amazon deleted the original Shipment Zero blog post. We dug it up. Loading Something is loading. … Read more
CNN — Some Amazon corporate workers have announced plans to walk off the job next week over frustrations with the company’s return-to-work policies, among other issues, in a sign of heightened tensions inside the e-commerce giant after multiple rounds of … Read more
Photo: Bruce Bennett / Staff (Getty Images) Back in February, Tampa, Florida resident Sara Dooley’s car was hit by an Amazon driver. As WFLA reports, the car was damaged enough to be considered totaled. “He hits the gas thinking he’s … Read more
The online shop Book Depository is due to close at the end of April, vendors and publishing partners have been told. This comes after the bookseller’s parent company Amazon announced it had decided to “eliminate” a number of positions across … Read more
Amazon is starting to warn consumers when products sold on its platform are regularly shipped back for returns. As reported by The Information, Amazon is rolling out a warning label on “frequently returned” products that will encourage consumers to check … Read more
It doesn’t matter whether they’re for your Kindle or in print — starting this week, Amazon is no longer selling newspaper and magazine subscriptions. Publishers were alerted to the coming change in December, and subscribers were notified last week. (If you … Read more