Health care
The cuts included employees working on Amazon’s various health-care offerings. Amazon Pharmacy, the online pharmacy it launched in 2020, saw program managers, risk compliance managers and billing managers let go as part of the job cuts. Additionally, employees working on digital health tools and the Halo health and fitness tracker lost their jobs.
Amazon has faced numerous challenges in its effort to crack the heal;th-care market. The company said last year that it was winding down its telehealth service, and the two founders of online pharmacy PillPack, which Amazon bought in 2018, announced their departures. Hundreds of employees were let go in 2022 between a division called Amazon Care and Care Medical, an independent company that was contracted to work with Amazon.
Marketplace
Employees in Amazon’s third-party marketplace unit were among those whose jobs were cut. The business oversees the millions of sellers who hawk their wares on the website and app.
Staffers involved in third-party seller services, seller experience, seller financial technology, software development, and online seller communities were let go. Amazon Launchpad, a unit that assists new sellers, also experienced heavy cuts.
Real estate
Employees involved in construction and facilities planning, real estate transactions, disaster recovery, and physical stores development lost their jobs.
Retail
Retail units that were affected include supply chain optimization technology, pricing, vendor management, the Amazon Shopping app and Amazon’s business-to-business marketplace. The cuts also included fashion stylists, who provided clothing recommendations to Amazon shoppers as part of its 「try before you buy」 service, formerly known as Prime Wardrobe.
Prime Air
Amazon’s drone delivery unit saw widespread layoffs, with employees at sites in Washington, Oregon, Texas and California getting cut, CNBC previously reported. Sources familiar with the matter told CNBC that employees in the design, maintenance, systems engineering, flight testing and flight operations units were part of the layoffs.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/31/amazon-layoffs-hit-workers-in-robotics-grocery-health-aws-units.html