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18,000 – this is the number of employees that Amazon fired in the last two months as part of the huge wave of layoffs that it announced at the end of last year. 18,000 people who will no longer come to the offices and will no longer receive a salary.
Those who do continue to come to the offices, although they don’t exactly receive a salary for it, are the dogs of thousands of employees who stayed – and the one who revealed this is the company itself, in a post it uploaded to its identity blog.
The post is about 11 dogs that according to Amazon itself, arrive for a “successful work day” at its offices. However, she emphasized that no less than 10,000 dogs are registered as Amazon “employees”, and come to work with their owners at the company’s offices in the US and Australia, which have undergone special adjustments to adapt the environment to dogs.
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Thus, for example, the company stated in a previous post on the subject from a year ago that at its main headquarters there are dog snacks at every reception desk that are given to any dog that comes and asks; Also, on the 17th floor of one of the buildings there is an enclosed balcony resembling a dog park, including a fake fire hydrant (presumably for dogs to urinate on); Bags for collecting necessities are scattered throughout the buildings, as well as water fountains from which the dogs can drink.
The company loves dogs so much that it has an entire team – human employees who receive full salaries – whose job it is to offer adaptations of the offices for dogs, as well as to organize social events for dogs and their owners, so that the dogs can make connections and make friends with the dogs of the other employees.
According to the company, this is an “ancient tradition”, since already in the early days of the company, two of the employees, who were a married couple, used to bring their Welsh corgi dog to work. He even clicked the publish button on some of the first pages on the site, and one of the Amazon headquarters buildings was named the “Rufus Building” after him. Even the error pages on Amazon show pictures of the employees’ dogs.
All of this, of course, costs quite a bit of money – and this, let’s remember again, at a time when the company is laying off almost 20,000 workers to save money.
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