(VOR News) – In a statement that was sent out on Monday, Andy Jassy, the Chief Executive Officer of Amazon, stated that the business is informing its corporate employees that they have to report to work five days each week.

The decision represents a significant divergence from Amazon’s previous return-to-work policy, which required corporate workers to be present in the office for a minimum of three days per week.

This policy was in place until the decision was made. Due to the fact that the firm has now provided employees with till January 2 to begin conforming to the new standards, employees will have until that date to begin doing so.

According to Jassy, it will be required of employees of corporations that they will be present at their place of employment five days per week “outside of extenuating circumstances” or unless they have been granted an exception by the leader of their organization’s S-team.

The Amazon S-team is a close-knit group of executives who report to the CEO.

“Before the pandemic, it was not a given that people could work remotely two days a week, and that will also be true moving forward — our expectation is that people will be in the office unless there are extenuating circumstances,” according to Jassy. “We anticipate that people will be in the office.”

In order to streamline its organisational structure, Amazon is reportedly planning to “remove layers and flatten organisations,” as stated by Jassy. Reducing the number of managers will be the means by which this objective will be achieved.

The information that he provided suggests that by the time the first quarter of 2025 comes to a close, it will be expected of every S-team organisation that they will have increased the ratio of individual contributors to managers by a minimum of fifteen percent.

The phrase “individual contributors” is used to refer to people who, in the majority of instances, do not have direct supervision over other members of the workforce of the organisation.

Regarding the question of whether or not the change will result in the elimination of particular manager positions, there is a distinct lack of clarity.

Amazon did not answer right away when asked for a statement.

The request was not immediately received with a response. However, prior to Jassy taking over as CEO of Amazon and implementing widespread cost reductions across the company, including the most severe layoffs in the company’s 27 years as a public corporation, the company had a significant increase in its personnel during the epidemic.

A total of 1.53 million people were employed by Amazon during the second quarter of the year, which represents a growth of only 5% when compared to the same time period in the previous year. Amazon’s workforce, on the other hand, experienced a 14% increase, reaching 1.52 million employees during the second quarter of 2022. This is a point of comparison.

Jassy wrote a lengthy letter to the staff members, in which she highlighted that Amazon is implementing these changes in order to enhance its corporate culture and guarantee that it continues to be agile during the transition period.

He added that the organisation had built a “bureaucracy mailbox,” which is a dedicated email alias, in order to eliminate any unnecessary procedures or excessive rules that were introduced within the organisation. This was done in order to highlight the point that was being made.

Jassy is writing from here, and she says, “We want to operate like the world’s largest startup.”

“That means having a passion for constantly inventing for customers, a strong sense of urgency (for the majority of big opportunities, it’s a race!), high ownership, an ability to make decisions quickly, scrappiness and frugalism, deeply connected collaboration (you need to be joined at the hip with your colleagues when inventing and solving difficult problems); and a shared commitment to each other.”

Over the course of the afternoon trading session, Amazon shares saw a decrease.

SOURCE: CNBC

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GENEVA — Sebastian Coe, Two former Olympic winners are running for president of the International Olympic Committee. So is a prince from a Middle Eastern monarchy and the son of a previous president. The world’s best in cycling, gymnastics, and skiing are also competing.

The International Olympic Committee announced on Monday a list of seven potential candidates to run for president in March, succeeding outgoing president Thomas Bach for the next eight years.

Solely one woman, Zimbabwean IOC executive board member Kirsty Coventry, competed to lead an organization that has solely had male presidents throughout its 130-year history. Eight of the presidents were from Europe, with one from the United States.

Coventry and Sebastian Coe have won two gold medals in swimming and running, respectively. Prince Feisal al Hussein of Jordan also serves on the IOC board.

Sebastian Coe Among 7 IOC Members To Enter Race To Succeed Thomas Bach As President

Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr., an investment banker from Spain, is one of the four IOC vice presidents. His father served as president for 21 years, until 2001.

David Lappartient is the president of cycling’s regulatory body, Molinari Watanabe is in charge of gymnastics, and Johan Eliasch is the president of the International Ski and Snowboard Federation. Coe is the president of World Athletics.

All seven met a Sunday deadline to write a letter of intent to Bach, who must leave office next year after serving the full 12-year term. Bach declined to pursue IOC rule changes at the Paris Olympics last month to remain in office longer.

The next president’s term will include hosting the Summer Games in Los Angeles in 2028 and Brisbane, Australia, four years later. The IOC has many major issues, including selecting a host for the 2036 Olympics — with India and Qatar in the running — assessing the impact of climate change on the global sports calendar, and renewing the U.S. television arrangement, which has been a cornerstone of Olympic financing.

A formal candidate list should be announced in January, three months before the March 18-21 election in Greece, on the site of ancient Olympia.

Only IOC members are eligible to run as candidates, with the rest of the Olympic body’s 111 members casting their ballots.

The International Olympic Committee is one of the most exclusive clubs in international sports. Its members include European and Middle Eastern nobility, international sports body officials, former and current Olympic athletes, politicians, and diplomats, as well as industrialists, including billionaires such as Eliasch.

It makes for one of the most quiet and unusual election campaigns in sports history, with members barred from publicly promoting their candidate.

Campaign restrictions for candidates include a ban on broadcasting films, organizing public gatherings, and participating in public debates. They are likely to release manifestos before the IOC holds a closed-door meeting to address voters in January in its home city of Lausanne, Switzerland.

The top post at the IOC ideally requires extensive knowledge of sports management, an appreciation of athletes’ requirements, and quick global political skills.

The president leads an organisation that generates billions of dollars in revenue from broadcasting and sponsorship deals during the Olympic Games and employs hundreds of people.

Coe has been universally regarded as the most qualified contender. He was a two-time Olympic champion in the 1,500 meters before becoming an elected MP in Britain in the 1990s. He also oversaw the bidding and organising committees for the 2012 London Olympics and has presided over World Athletics for nine years.

However, he has disagreed with the IOC, Bach, and other sports leaders on a number of issues, notably his strong stance against Russia on state-sponsored doping and the invasion of Ukraine, coe  as well as the decision to pay $50,000 cash rewards to track and field gold medallists in Paris.

“The International Olympic Committee must prioritise a laser-like concentration on sport. In a statement released Monday, Coe stated, “I believe I can help achieve this and more.”

However, he may face legal challenges in fulfilling his eight-year tenure. The IOC’s membership age restriction is 70, and Coe will be 68 on election day. The regulations allow for a special exemption to continue for four more years, but this would result in a six-year presidency unless the restrictions are adjusted.

Coventry, who turned 41 on Monday, previously served as Zimbabwe’s appointed sports minister.

Sebastian Coe Among 7 IOC Members To Enter Race To Succeed Thomas Bach As President

Anita DeFrantz, a former Olympic rower from the United States, was the only woman to run for president of the International Olympic Committee. She was defeated in the first round of voting in a five-candidate contest in 2001, which was won by Jacques Rogge.

Samaranch, who turns 65 in November, is the candidates’ longest-serving member, having joined in 2001 when his father stood down. The Spanish official would also want an extension to the IOC’s age limit.

Lappartient is also the president of France’s national Olympic committee, which has built on the success of the Paris Summer Games. He oversees a French Alps initiative that has been chosen to host the 2030 Winter Games, and Bach has appointed him to supervise a long-term project signed in Paris that will see Saudi Arabia host the Esports Olympic Games until 2035.

Eliasch is perhaps the most surprising contender, having been chosen as an IOC member in Paris less than two months ago. The Swedish-British owner of the Head sportswear company received 17 “no” votes, which is unusually high in Olympic politics.

SOURCE | AP

(VOR News) – Former presidents Barack Obama told Fox News Digital that his second assassination Trump attempt since July was a result of Democrats’ “highly inflammatory language,” and that President Biden and Vice President Harris’ “rhetoric” was “causing him to feel as though he were shot at.”.”

Monday morning, Trump held an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, one day after the Secret Service discovered a shooter in the shrubbery at the Trump International golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Suspect Ryan Wesley Routh was carrying two luggage and an AK-47 as he pointed a Go-Pro camera through the chain-link fence towards the green. Even though the suspect ran away, they were caught on Interstate 95.

Authorities think there was an attempt on Trump’s life.

This was Trump’s second attempt at assassination since July, but he was uninjured.

According to Trump, the gunman’s actions were influenced by the words he heard from Biden and Harris, as he told Fox News Digital. As a result of their rhetoric, I am being shot at, when in reality I am the one who intends to save the country, and they are the ones who are destroying it – both internally and externally.”

Trump used the fact that Biden and Harris had called him a “threat to democracy” in the past to support his designation of them as “unity” leaders.

Trump said, “They are the exact opposite.” “These are people that want to destroy our country.”

His next statement was, “The internal enemy.” They pose the greatest risk. Officials have suggested Ryan Wesley Routh as the name. He lives in Hawaii and has had a lot of legal issues during the course of the 1990s.

Routh restated on social media the assertions made by Biden and Harris that “Democratic is on the ballot” and that Democrats “cannot lose.”

Apart from his regular political analysis, Routh only made contributions to Democratic causes. “They do it with a combination of rhetoric and lawsuits they wrap me up in,” he said. That is the rhetoric dangerous fools, such as the shooter, listen to – and the same applies to the first one.”

Trump has often been described by Democrats as a “threat to democracy,” especially in light of the way he handled the altercation in the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

He accused Trump of inciting Haitian immigrant violence in Springfield, Ohio. Over the weekend, Biden said at a meeting that “any president should reject hate in America” and “not incite it.”

The White House did not reply to a communication from Fox News Digital, nor did Harris’s campaign or running mate, Minnesota Governor Time Warner, acknowledge receipt of it.

In addition, Trump claimed that by “allowing millions of very dangerous migrants to pour into it and destroying our country and cities,” Biden and Harris’ policies were “destructing” the country.

“From the outside, we appear weak and feeble and we are no longer respected by the world.” he said.

Trump chastised the media after the Harris debate last week.

“The media is made up of fools that will spew [Democrats’] garbage and spew their sick philosophies and will protect them at all costs, and they can’t believe they get away with it,” he said. “Democrats are totally protected by the media.”

The conversation on ABC News last week, according to Trump, was “so biased and so out of control.”

Harris was the one who made up the details about Project 2025. He said, “She lied about everything, including abortion.” “She was correcting me.”

Then he said, “one against three.” David Muir appeals to me somehow. Though he is a sleeze like everyone else, I thought he was fantastic.

Trump advised Democrats to change their language given just 50 days until Election Day. He highlighted the remark, “They use highly inflammatory language.”

On July 13, Trump was shot in the ear while attending an event in Pennsylvania. The gunman left one person dead and numerous others wounded before police fired and killed him.

SOURCE: FN

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