Amazon: Mass Dismissal at British Drone Shipping Company: Amazon Prime Air
Amazon Prime Air:
Amazon Prime Air in the United Kingdom has temporarily fired more than 100 employees.
Amazon
Prime Air Team:
We have been working on drone delivery since 2016.
A former employee told Wired that the division began to collapse in 2019.
Realization of drone delivery:
The department’s goal was to enable drone delivery.
Amazon has been testing prime air drones in the UK since 2016.
Business Insider Japan
https://www.businessinsider.jp/post-239907
The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream
Well over 100 employees at Amazon Prime Air have lost their jobs and dozens of other roles
are moving to other projects abroad as the company shutters part of its operation in the UK, WIRED understands.
Insiders claim the future of the UK operation, which launched in 2016
to help pioneer Amazon’s global drone delivery efforts, is now uncertain.
Those working on the UK team in the last few years, who spoke on condition of anonymity,
describe a project that was
“collapsing inwards”,
“dysfunctional” and
resembled “organised chaos”,run by managers that were “detached from reality” in the years building up to the mass redundancies.
Amazon says it still has staff working for Prime Air in the UK, but has refused to confirm headcount.
WIRED UK
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/amazon-drone-delivery-prime-air