Amazon thanks hourly employees for work during the coronavirus pandemic with one-time bonus
Bonuses will range from $150 to $3,000. Full-time warehouse and Whole Foods workers will receive $500.
Inside Amazon’s Kent fulfillment center, a proving ground for the company’s coronavirus response
The facility — the closest of its kind to Amazon’s Seattle headquarters — became a proving ground for several new safety measures implemented by the...
Amazon reports 15% rise in greenhouse gas emissions, announces $2 billion low-carbon investment fund
Amazon’s total greenhouse gas emissions increased 15% in 2019, even as the commerce giant continues emissions-reduction efforts, including with a new $2 billion investment fund...
Amazon announces first three co-signers of carbon neutral pledge
Amazon announced the first three co-signers of The Climate Pledge, a goal it unveiled nine months ago to reduce and offset all of a company's...
Former Macy’s store at Redmond Town Center has a new tenant: Amazon
The building can accommodate more than 600 employees of Amazon Web Services, the company's cloud-computing business, beginning in 2021.
Amazon suspends police use of controversial facial-recognition technology
“We’ve advocated that governments should put in place stronger regulations to govern the ethical use of facial recognition technology, and in recent days, Congress appears...
Jayapal, other Democratic lawmakers back Amazon employees’ lawsuit over working conditions
Members of Congress asked the court to issue an injunction requiring "Amazon to use its ingenuity" to implement additional workplace safety measures, citing inaction by...
Big polluters are spending billions on controversial projects that protect forests and let them keep polluting
As industrial polluters try to erase their greenhouse gas emissions, they plan to spend billions of dollars in the coming years on preserving and restoring...
Bezos defends Amazon’s ‘Black lives matter’ message in exchange with angry customer
The company's CEO told an offended customer that the message “speaks to racism and the disproportionate risk that Black people face in our law enforcement...
Amazon works with Black employees group to distribute $10 million to social justice efforts
The donations follow social media posts in recent days expressing solidarity with the Black community amid an uprising across the country over ongoing racial injustice,...