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Katherine Long

@_katya_long
12 posts
2022-11-11
“Amazon's devices unit, which includes Alexa, had an operating loss of more than $5 billion a year.” Amazon finally coming to grips with the reality that Alexa, for many a glorified speaker/timer, isn't driving people to buy more stuff on Amazon dot com. https://www.wsj.com/...
2022-11-11 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Amazon started a monthslong cost-cutting review of its unprofitable businesses, like its devices unit, which had a $5B+ operating loss in recent years

2022-10-18
$8B in attrition costs makes $1B in warehouse raises look very sensible. https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-18 View on X
Engadget

Internal doc: Amazon has a high attrition rate across all levels, costing $8B annually, and workers choose to leave twice as often as layoffs and firings occur

Amazon churns through workers at an astonishing rate, well above industry averages.  According to a tranche of documents marked …

2022-10-13
Amazon Prime Day 2.0 recap - average order size 23% smaller than Prime Day 1.0 - peak order volume down 17% from Prime Day 1.0 ( https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...) - workers at 4 warehouses held walkouts for higher wages https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-13 View on X
Bloomberg

Numerator: during Amazon's second Prime Day, the average US order size was $46.44, down 23% from the July Prime Day, mostly comprising household essentials

Amazon.com Inc. shoppers are largely skipping pricey purchases during the company's Prime sale sequel — favoring pantry items … Tweets: @_katya_long , @newsynick , and @paul__armst...

2022-09-24
@Techmeme @colinlodewick I actually broke this story, though it was very nice of @FortuneMagazine and @colinlodewick (on his last day on the job!) to pick it up — they even included a linkback to me, considerate of them! https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
2022-09-24 View on X
Fortune

Report: an email shows Amazon is walking back some corporate employee raises after a bug caused it to overstate bonuses by using older, higher stock prices

they even included a linkback to me, considerate of them! https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... Emil Protalinski / @epro : Better than layoffs https://twitter.com/... Alex Kantrowit...

2022-06-14
@eugenekim222 However, in its announcement, Amazon caveated that the company does not yet have approval from the state and the FAA to conduct these drone deliveries to customers. https://www.aboutamazon.com/ ...
2022-06-14 View on X
CNET

Amazon plans to test drone deliveries in Lockeford, California, after receiving FAA approval to service the town, for products ordered through Amazon Prime Air

2021-10-07
Seattle and its environs home to two of the nation's most-loved tech co's, Amazon and Microsoft. https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-07 View on X
The Verge

Survey of 1,200 US adults: 66% view Facebook favorably, down from 71% in 2020, compared to 79% for Apple (down 2%), 87% for Amazon (down 4%), and 90% for Google

2021-08-06
@Pauledroberts @heidigroover Meanwhile, some Amazon warehouse workers expressed frustration that the company seems to be doing more to protect office employees than its nearly one million front-line workers. https://www.seattletimes.com/ ...
2021-08-06 View on X
GeekWire

Amazon delays its return to offices from September 3 to January 3, 2022

“This has been such an unusual time for all of us,” an internal Amazon blog post announcing the latest delay read. Only 8% of Amazon employees want to go back to the office full-ti...

UPDATED, w/ @Pauledroberts and @heidigroover — “This has been such an unusual time for all of us,” an internal Amazon blog post announcing the latest delay read. Only 8% of Amazon employees want to go back to the office full-time, an internal survey found. https://www.seattletimes.com/ ...
2021-08-06 View on X
GeekWire

Amazon delays its return to offices from September 3 to January 3, 2022

“This has been such an unusual time for all of us,” an internal Amazon blog post announcing the latest delay read. Only 8% of Amazon employees want to go back to the office full-ti...

2021-07-02
LOT of action in this first open meeting - roadmap of coming investigations, including into big tech co's and digital platforms - new, streamlined rulemaking process - an implicit warning to potential targets of investigation: we plan to subpoena you https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-02 View on X
The Verge

FTC passes new measures expanding its power to regulate anti-competitive business practices, in its first open business meeting in more than 20 years

Russell Brandom / The Verge :

2021-06-22
“When you have to 'Sophie's Choice' your employees, it's not cool.” Internal documents show how Amazon tries to systematically force out its lowest-ranked office workers to meet a target called “unregretted attrition.” https://www.seattletimes.com/ ...
2021-06-22 View on X
The Seattle Times

Internal docs: Amazon tries to push 6% of its office staff out of the company each year, calling the loss of low-ranked office workers “unregretted attrition”

the number of underperforming employees who leave each year — only to resume doing so by 2018, per @_katya_long: https://www.seattletimes.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...

Amazon's “unregretted attrition” metric, defined by an Amazon human resources specialist, in sworn testimony: “How do I word this? They're not necessarily considered a loss. We don't regret them leaving.” https://www.seattletimes.com/ ...
2021-06-22 View on X
The Seattle Times

Internal docs: Amazon tries to push 6% of its office staff out of the company each year, calling the loss of low-ranked office workers “unregretted attrition”

the number of underperforming employees who leave each year — only to resume doing so by 2018, per @_katya_long: https://www.seattletimes.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...

2021-06-11
NEW: Amazon says office workers can stay remote two days a week, and work remotely full-time for four weeks a year. This is the first major update to the company's WFH policy since March, when it announced a return to an “office-centric culture.” https://www.seattletimes.com/ ...
2021-06-11 View on X
GeekWire

In an internal memo, Amazon adjusts return-to-office guidance and says it will allow corporate employees to work remotely up to two days per week

Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire :