Amazon reduces some works in your communications, sustainability units

Amazon He is dismissing some employees in their communications and sustainability units, an executive who supervises the divisions announced internally on Wednesday.

In a note for employees seen by CNBC, Drew Herdener, who supervises public relations, wrote that the company is eliminating some works in these groups as part of a broader review of the “current design of org” of divisions.

“As we examined our current organization design and decided the changes described above, we identified some roles that were too limited or that introduced unnecessary layers, where we could not solve the challenge flattening the structure or changing workloads,” Herdener wrote. “To address this and do the right thing for the business, we are eliminating a small number of roles in communications and sustainability. This is a difficult decision to make and one that my leadership team and I do not take lightly.”

Amazon spokesman Brad Glasser confirmed the layoffs and said in a statement that employment cuts “would help us move faster, increase property, strengthen our culture and bring equipment closer to customers.” Bloomberg He previously reported employment cuts.

Herdener continued to say that the company can once again hire some employees for roles at the lowest levels, “and in others, we will redistribute the staff to other areas within the organization.” Amazon will provide financial support, continuous benefits and employment assistance to dismissed employees, said Herdener.

Amazon reduced more than 27,000 jobs throughout the company in 2022 and 2023 as part of the efforts of CEO Andy Jassy for Out of costs. Had smaller rounds of employment cuts in 2024 that are Stretching this year. The company has also continued reducing some of its most experimental or non -profitable initiatives, including a “Try before buying” clothing service and A rapid brick and mortar delivery program.

Herdener said that Amazon is rationalizing his communications and sustainability divisions after the organization “grew quite a lot” in recent years. Herdener’s role expanded in recent years and now also supervises corporate responsibility, which includes the sustainability group.

Amazon made a hiring re 798,000 in the fourth quarter of 2019. The company had more than 1.5 employees At the end of the third quarter.

Amazon is also making some changes in his “center strategy”, which dictates that offices teams mainly use, as part of reorganization, said Herdener. The goal is to have “more team members who work in the same physical location as most of their teammates and/or manager,” he wrote. Herdener said he is leaving his direct reports to decide which locations make sense to their teams.

Earlier this month, Amazon began to require corporate personnel Spend five days a week at the office. In an impulse for employees to return to the office, some employees were told to move to centers in different states. Several Amazon employees told CNBC After the announcement of the “return to the center” policy they had chosen to leave the company instead of relocating.

As part of the five -day office mandate, Amazon also established the objective of flattening its corporate structure by having less managers in each organization.

Amazon has made sustainability a larger directive within the company. It established ambitious climatic objectives in 2019, including the commitment to be neutral carbon by 2040. It also aims to feed its commercial operations with renewable energy sources by 2025, and has accumulated a portfolio of more than 500 wind and solar projects worldwide.