Amazon to begin locking out some laid-off employees

Amazon is locking some laid-off employees out of its offices and their company-issued laptops, about a week after the company started notifying workers their positions were being cut. Amazon told laid-off employees from the division that works on the Alexa virtual assistant to collect belongings, pack up company-issued laptops, and download Amazon’s email and messaging service on their personal devices by 5 p.m. Wednesday, according to an email viewed by The Seattle Times. Amazon began notifying employees they had lost their jobs last Tuesday, the first round in a string of layoffs that will last into 2023 and affect around 10,000 jobs.