“On the morning of Oct. 28, employees working on the fertility tracker were told to join a videoconference where a director of the team informed them that the project was ending. The call lasted about two minutes, one of the people said.”
Amazon spent four years and roughly $1.5 million a week on a saliva-testing fertility tracker codenamed Encore. About 100 people lost their jobs in a two-minute video call. Severance is one week of pay per six months of tenure. The app would have logged periods, symptoms and sexual activity for a company that sells ads, and that is the part nobody will miss.