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The combined wealth of America’s billionaires, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Tesla chief Elon Musk, increased nearly 10 percent during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report published by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). The wealth surge of America’s richest men happened during a period that saw as many as 22 million …
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Amazon’s globetrotting CEO Jeff Bezos has been pulled back into the company’s day-to-day operations by the coronavirus, according to a new report. The 56-year-old Bezos — who in recent years has delegated management of his $1.2 trillion e-commerce juggernaut while he turned his focus to moonshot projects like his Blue Origin rocket company — has …
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Robbie Amell has made a name for himself starring in sci-fi shows (“The Flash,” “The X-Files”) and rom-coms (“The Duff”). His new Amazon comedy, “Upload,” combines the two genres. “I love comedy and I love sci-fi, that’s kind of where my taste lives,” Amell, 31, tells The Post. “I knew that I wanted [to do] …
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Hundreds of Amazon warehouse staffers are staying home on Tuesday in protest of their work conditions during the coronavirus pandemic, according to labor groups. Some 300 workers across more than 40 Amazon facilities in California, Texas, Wisconsin, Florida and New York, among other states, signed a pledge to not work on Tuesday, Zachary Lerner, a …
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Whole Foods is reportedly using an “interactive heat map” to monitor its stores and flag locations that are at risk of unionizing. The Amazon-owned supermarket chain — whose 510 stores employ 95,000 nationwide — scores each of its stores on a number of factors, including employee “‘loyalty,’ turnover, and racial diversity” according to Business Insider, …
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said Thursday that the company is on its way to building the capacity to test all of its employees for the coronavirus. In a shareholder letter, Bezos said that the e-commerce juggernaut is on the cusp of being able to begin tests on employees in its warehouses, and will eventually be …
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Amazon is reportedly trying to get customers to buy fewer items on its site as it struggles to keep up with demand. The Seattle-based e-tailing giant earlier this week lifted its ban preventing third-party sellers from shipping non-essential items to its warehouses after previously announcing that it would only accept “household staples, medical supplies and …
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Amazon’s moves to reduce strain on its grocery businesses by putting new online shoppers on wait lists and switching more Whole Foods resources to filling orders, is unmasking limitations at the company that was expected to upend the supermarket industry. The coronavirus pandemic should be Amazon’s moment to shine. Some 90 percent of US shoppers …
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An Amazon operations manager became the first known employee of the e-commerce giant to die of the coronavirus, according to new reports. Gerard Tuzara, 35, who worked at Amazon’s DLA8 facility in Hawthorne, California, died of the illness late last month, the Sun reported. Amazon first confirmed the death in an email to Business Insider. …
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Amazon has fired two activist employees who criticized the company’s treatment of warehouse workers during the coronavirus crisis. The e-commerce colossus said it canned user experience designers Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa for “repeatedly violating internal policies.” Both have slammed Amazon’s environmental policies and more recently spoke out in support of warehouse workers who say …
The combined wealth of America’s billionaires, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Tesla chief Elon Musk, increased nearly 10 percent during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report published by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). The wealth surge of America’s richest men happened during a period that saw as many as 22 million …
