Amazon Pauses Holiday Layoff Incentive

Faced with an increasingly tight labour market, Amazon has quietly paused a longstanding programme through which it paid US warehouse workers up to $5,000 to quit their jobs after the busy peak season, The Information has learned.

Amazon instituted the programme — known inside the company as Pay to Quit or simply The Offer — in 2014 to help quickly trim the size of its workforce, which expands significantly during the holiday season.

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