- Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has written a memo addressed to Amazon’s employees in which he outlines a number of steps the company has taken in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis.
- The coronavirus impact has been devastating to the economy, Bezos writes, adding that he hopes people who’ve been laid-off from restaurants and bars, among other jobs, will apply to work at Amazon “until they’re able to go back to the jobs they had.”
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In a memo addressed to his tens of thousands of workers and posted to the company website over the weekend, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos detailed the series of steps Amazon has taken in response to the global coronavirus crisis — adding that the deadly virus and the part that Amazon can play in responding to it are pretty much the only things he’s focused on right now. And, in addition to spotlighting measures such as Amazon raising the wages of its hourly workers (who are still dutifully manning the warehouses that we’re all ordering from right now) and hiring for 100,000 new roles, Bezos put out a direct call in his memo to the scores of newly-unemployed workers as a result of the virus.
The quarantines and shelter-in-place orders that are multiplying around the country mean no one is patronizing local businesses that range from hotels to bars, retail shops, and restaurants. “We hope people who’ve been laid off will come work with us until they’re able to go back to the jobs they had,” Bezos writes in the letter, which includes this gloomy prognostication about the crisis: “I’m sad to tell you I predict things are going to get worse before they get better.”
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