Fired Amazon employees griped concerning the e-retail giant using email to tell them they were not needed by the corporate, in response to a printed report.
At the least five employees who were laid off Wednesday said they received a cold-blooded missive from management, in response to Insider.
“Unfortunately, your role has been eliminated,” wrote Beth Galetti, the highest executive at Amazon’s human resources department, in one in every of the emails.
“You aren’t any longer required to perform any work on Amazon’s behalf effective immediately.”
The Seattle-based e-commerce giant is culling 18,000 jobs from its payroll as a part of cost-cutting measures.
The five ex-workers said that none of them were summoned to face-to-face meetings with their managers before they were fired.
“Everyone seems to be pretty upset,” one in every of the canned employees said. “We just woke as much as an email today.”
Immediately after receiving the e-mail, the fired employees said that their office badges were not working and that they were cut off from access to the corporate’s internal computer system.
“Our primary mode of communication will probably be through internal email in your non-Amazon device,” Galetti wrote in the e-mail.
So as to add insult to injury, the laid-off employees were told that because they may not access their work computers, they needed so as to add their work emails and Amazon videoconferencing app Chime to their personal devices, in response to Insider.
An Amazon spokesperson referred The Post to a press release from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who said earlier this month that management was “deeply aware that these role eliminations are difficult for people, and we don’t take these decisions evenly or underestimate how much they could affect the lives of those that are impacted.”
Other tech giants equivalent to Microsoft, Meta, Snap and Twitter have also downsized within the face of economic uncertainty across the technology sector.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella circulated a companywide memo on Wednesday announcing that the Windows software giant will probably be shedding around 5% of its 221,000-strong workforce — or 10,000 employees — from its payroll.
Hours before Nadella’s memo went out to employees, Microsoft hired famed “The Police” rocker Sting to perform at an intimate gathering of fifty people on the sidelines of the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, in response to The Wall Street Journal.
Galetti’s email to terminated Amazonians was sent with the topic line “Subject: Vital details about your role.”
“Today we’re taking the very difficult step of reducing roles across several of our businesses,” Galetti wrote in the e-mail obtained by Insider.
“Unfortunately, your role has been eliminated.”
“This will not be a choice that was made evenly, and we’re committed to providing support to ease the transition out of Amazon, including a separation payment, transitional advantages as applicable by country, and external job placement services,” the e-mail read.
Laid off employees of other firms which can be shrinking headcounts during turbulent economic times said that the way in which during which they were told about being laid off left a nasty taste of their mouths.
Last week, several bankers who were canned by Wall Street investment giant Goldman Sachs told The Post that they were invited to “meetings” at the corporate’s Recent York headquarters via emailed calendar invites — only to be told by their team head that they were being fired.
One source told The Post that the meeting to which laid off employees were invited to was “placed on [their] calendar under false pretenses.”
Fired Amazon employees griped concerning the e-retail giant using email to tell them they were not needed by the corporate, in response to a printed report.
At the least five employees who were laid off Wednesday said they received a cold-blooded missive from management, in response to Insider.
“Unfortunately, your role has been eliminated,” wrote Beth Galetti, the highest executive at Amazon’s human resources department, in one in every of the emails.
“You aren’t any longer required to perform any work on Amazon’s behalf effective immediately.”
The Seattle-based e-commerce giant is culling 18,000 jobs from its payroll as a part of cost-cutting measures.
The five ex-workers said that none of them were summoned to face-to-face meetings with their managers before they were fired.
“Everyone seems to be pretty upset,” one in every of the canned employees said. “We just woke as much as an email today.”
Immediately after receiving the e-mail, the fired employees said that their office badges were not working and that they were cut off from access to the corporate’s internal computer system.
“Our primary mode of communication will probably be through internal email in your non-Amazon device,” Galetti wrote in the e-mail.
So as to add insult to injury, the laid-off employees were told that because they may not access their work computers, they needed so as to add their work emails and Amazon videoconferencing app Chime to their personal devices, in response to Insider.
An Amazon spokesperson referred The Post to a press release from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who said earlier this month that management was “deeply aware that these role eliminations are difficult for people, and we don’t take these decisions evenly or underestimate how much they could affect the lives of those that are impacted.”
Other tech giants equivalent to Microsoft, Meta, Snap and Twitter have also downsized within the face of economic uncertainty across the technology sector.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella circulated a companywide memo on Wednesday announcing that the Windows software giant will probably be shedding around 5% of its 221,000-strong workforce — or 10,000 employees — from its payroll.
Hours before Nadella’s memo went out to employees, Microsoft hired famed “The Police” rocker Sting to perform at an intimate gathering of fifty people on the sidelines of the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, in response to The Wall Street Journal.
Galetti’s email to terminated Amazonians was sent with the topic line “Subject: Vital details about your role.”
“Today we’re taking the very difficult step of reducing roles across several of our businesses,” Galetti wrote in the e-mail obtained by Insider.
“Unfortunately, your role has been eliminated.”
“This will not be a choice that was made evenly, and we’re committed to providing support to ease the transition out of Amazon, including a separation payment, transitional advantages as applicable by country, and external job placement services,” the e-mail read.
Laid off employees of other firms which can be shrinking headcounts during turbulent economic times said that the way in which during which they were told about being laid off left a nasty taste of their mouths.
Last week, several bankers who were canned by Wall Street investment giant Goldman Sachs told The Post that they were invited to “meetings” at the corporate’s Recent York headquarters via emailed calendar invites — only to be told by their team head that they were being fired.
One source told The Post that the meeting to which laid off employees were invited to was “placed on [their] calendar under false pretenses.”
