Amazon workers return to work en masse! The platform's last measure to reduce costs

This new policy requires all headquarters staff to come to the office to work at least three days a week! The day before yesterday was the first day of formal implementation, and nearly 10,000 people returned to their offline jobs, which was described by foreign media as "the largest return to work since the epidemic."

Sellers must be a little stunned to see this. Has Amazon always been working remotely? I checked and found that Amazon announced a policy of remote work for all non-essential positions when the epidemic broke out, and then changed it to employees choosing remote work or offline work according to their needs. However, the result of self-selection is that most employees prefer remote work. Amazon has actually been unable to sit still for a long time. As early as October 2020, it had decided to return to offline work after half a year and end remote work. However, due to the repeated epidemics and employee opposition, this deadline was postponed three times.

Amazon can be said to have forcibly implemented the return to offline work this time, despite the opposition of many people. In an internal survey conducted by Amazon at the end of last year, 56% of employees said they would rather work remotely and hold only one face-to-face meeting per month, and only 14% of employees accepted the rule of working offline three days a week. Even with such a high support rate, it is still forcibly implemented. Andy's spine may be broken.

Amazon employees returning to offline work is not a bad thing for us sellers. Many sellers have complained that they can’t find anyone when they have any problems with Amazon’s remote work, and the response speed of the brand team and performance team is far slower than before. Resuming offline work means that the operating efficiency of the headquarters can be significantly improved. And along with the resumption of work, Amazon recently had a big news, revealing a positive signal that Amazon’s layoffs are coming to an end.

This is an email intercepted by foreign media about an internal discussion at Amazon on Monday. The content mentioned that the human resources department and AWS department will be mainly reduced, and even mentioned that the latest personnel management system will be adopted in the AWS department to limit and manage the department's new recruitment plans.

I mentioned the AWS layoffs before May Day. As the profit-making pillar businesses of Amazon during its deficit period, advertising and AWS have laid off employees one after another.

I thought the layoffs of the two cash cow departments were serious, and the next round of layoffs might be even more severe. However, in the latest round of layoffs, the HR department was even laid off. Although this department is not important, HR plays the most important role in the layoff process. If the HR department is the one to be laid off, it can only mean that the layoffs have been completed and there will be no more HR work in the future. Therefore, the HR department is usually the last department to suffer from the layoffs.

Now that Amazon has reached this stage, it can at least be said that there will not be major layoffs in the future. Amazon's crazy contraction since last year can be said to have come to an end.

When Amazon began to shrink, the speed of seller loss also increased. This is also an inevitable impact of the shrinkage. After the shrinkage is over, what Amazon needs to do is to stabilize the existing framework and also stabilize third-party sellers. Now is the time for sellers to prepare for Prime Day. This year, Amazon needs to give sellers confidence and will be more generous in traffic allocation than in previous years. If you haven't participated in the Prime Day event yet, remember to at least apply for a free event. There will definitely be surprises this year.