“Those affected will include workers hired for remote positions and those who moved during peak pandemic days.”
Amazon hired people for remote jobs and now tells them to move to a “main hub” like Seattle, New York or San Francisco. It hasn’t worked out how many will have to uproot, and each department decides who goes. This follows about 27,000 layoffs since late 2022. For a remote hire, a relocation order is a layoff that skips the severance.