Bad news for this company employees, get 30 days ‘deadline’ to… or resign in…, not Ratan Tata’s TCS or Narayana Murthy’s Infosys it is…

Amazon is ordering thousands of corporate employees to relocate to major cities like Seattle, Arlington, and Washington DC according to a report by Bloomberg. Already there is news of layoffs by many companies and this one can add more pressure on employees.

The relocation mandate is for employees from different teams, wherein some of them have to move in the country which is close to their managers. This update was given to them in one-on-one meetings and town halls rather than company-wide announcements, according to media reports.

“We hear from the majority of our teammates that they love the energy from being located together, and whenever someone chooses to or is asked to relocate, we work with them to offer support based on their individual circumstances,” an Amazon spokesperson said.

Amazon Relocation Warning

Employees will get just 30 days to decide whether to relocate, followed by 60 days to either resign or start the relocation process. Employees  don’t want to relocate and will resign and may not get any severances. This will add more financial strain on them.

Mid-career professionals who have school-age children and settled with their partners are finding it difficult to relocate. Considering Amazon’s ongoing cost-cutting measures and recent warning about AI-related job losses, it can be even tougher for them in future.

Amazon CEO On Layoffs After AI ERA

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy anticipates generative artificial intelligence will reduce its corporate workforce in the next few years as the online giant begins to increase its usage of the technology.

“We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs,” Jassy said in a message to employees. “It’s hard to know exactly where this nets out over time, but in the next few years, we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company.”

The executive said that Amazon has more than 1,000 generative AI services and applications in progress or built, but that figure is a “small fraction” of what it plans to build.

(With Inputs From PTI)

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