Amazon will pay the full tuition fee for roughly 750,000 workers who are enrolled in colleges. Other programs like GEDs, high school diplomas, and ESL proficiency certifications will also be covered.
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Verdi has called on workers at an Amazon warehouse in Germany to strike again to disrupt the processing of orders during Black Friday. Roughly 500 workers participated in an earlier strike.
Amid the pandemic, the Seattle firm is installing thermal cameras at its warehouses to scan employees for fever faster. Some of the cameras have been bought from a U.S. blacklisted Chinese firm.
The e-commerce giant stated that it is increasing overtime pay for its warehouse workers in the United States in a bid to cope with the rapidly increasing demand during the coronavirus outbreak.
Amazon has struck a deal with French firm Balyo for its self-driving forklift technology. The $300 million deal could see Amazon take a stake fo 29% of Balyo over the next seven years.
Amazon has been awarded two patents which will let it track employees around the building while also guiding them to the packages they've been assigned to collect and get shipped to customers.
Amazon has expanded its warehouse storage in the UK by four million square feet. The move makes it number one in the country in terms of warehouse expansions, with Lidl coming in second place.
Amazon has announced that it will have 120,000 job openings during Christmas. While the jobs are seasonal, the company says it will transform some of them into full-time, regular jobs.
A patent filed by Amazon suggests the company has plans for flying warehouses. Both drones and small aircraft would connect to the ship to replenish stock and deliver goods autonomously.
In time for the holiday rush, Amazon is deploying thousands of helper Roomba-like robots. While they're currently making our lives easier they're also spelling doom for our current societal order.
Carphone Warehouse has emerged as a potential suitor in the running for Tiscali, the Italian broadband operator that was put up for sale this week. A source confirmed last night that Carphone could be interested...
Staff at Carphone Warehouse, the UK-based mobile communications retailer, are alleged to be misleading customers about Apple's iPhone insurance policy, the BBC has claimed. The information being communicated to prospective buyers or customers, who expressed...
Mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse hopes to boost flagging broadband uptake with a free laptop offer launched in September. The mobile phone retailer's latest figures announced today show its broadband uptake failed to meet its...
AOL UK has signed extended distribution deals with Comet and the Carphone Warehouse to flog its broadband service and ADSL starter kits. Comet is promoting and distributing AOL Broadband in its 260...
Thanks Dead Messiah for posting this in the forums! "A police spokesman for the Saitama prefecture in Japan has announced that a Warehouse of Nintendo products was burglarized. Approximately 23.6 million yen...
