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102 The Amazon office sits virtually bare connected March 10, 2020 successful downtown Seattle, Washington. In effect to the coronavirus outbreak, Amazon recommended each employees successful its Seattle bureau to enactment from home, leaving overmuch of downtown astir void of people.
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Amazon is pausing hiring for firm roles successful its retail business, according to a study published Tuesday by The New York Times.
The institution instructed recruiters to adjacent each unfastened occupation postings for those roles successful the coming days, and recommended they cancel immoderate recruiting activities, specified arsenic telephone calls to surface caller candidates, the Times reported, citing interior communications.
Amazon spokesperson Brad Glasser said the retail elephantine continues to person a important fig of unfastened roles crossed the company.
"We person galore antithetic businesses astatine assorted stages of evolution, and we expect to support adjusting our hiring strategies successful each of these businesses astatine assorted junctures," Glasser said successful a statement.
Amazon is the latest institution to reevaluate its hiring plans amid concerns of an economical downturn. Several companies including Google, Apple and Meta person announced they volition dilatory oregon temporarily intermission hiring altogether. Companies are besides looking for ways to chopped costs to gird for imaginable headwinds.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has worked swiftly to rein successful costs arsenic the institution grapples with slowing maturation successful its halfway retail business, which inactive accounts for the lion's stock of Amazon's revenue.
The retail concern enjoyed breakneck maturation during the Covid-19 pandemic arsenic consumers avoided trips to carnal stores and flocked to online retailers. By aboriginal 2022, e-commerce spending began to decelerate, and Amazon in the archetypal 4th reported its slowest complaint of gross maturation since the dot-com bust successful 2001.
Jassy has assured investors he's focused connected returning to a "healthy level of profitability" aft slowing retail income and rising costs ate into Amazon's earnings. In caller months, Amazon has closed oregon cancelled the motorboat of caller facilities, and it's delaying the opening of immoderate caller buildings aft its pandemic-driven enlargement near it with excessively overmuch warehouse space.
It has besides closed astir each of its U.S. telephone centers successful a bid to prevention connected existent estate, Bloomberg reported.
The institution is besides contending with excessively galore workers aft it went connected a pandemic hiring spree. In the second quarter, Amazon shaved its headcount by 99,000 radical to 1.52 cardinal employees.
