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ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Real estate data firm CoStar Group is moving its headquarters from Washington, D.C., to northern Virginia, a move that will bring roughly 650 jobs to the state. The relocation is expected to result in 500 jobs moving from D.C., plus the creation of 150 new jobs. The move comes as the Legislature is considering a $2 billion deal to relocate the NBA's Washington Wizards and NHL's Washington Capitals from their home in downtown to Washington to northern Virginia. Arlington County has successfully recruited numerous corporate headquarters in recent years, most famously landing the second Amazon headquarters in 2018. JBG Smith, the real estate company selling the office tower to CoStar, declined comment Wednesday.

Persons: Glenn Youngkin, JBG Smith Organizations: —, Washington , D.C, D.C, Washington Wizards, NHL's Washington Capitals, Virginia Gov, Arlington, Arlington County, Boeing, Nestle Locations: ARLINGTON, Va, Washington ,, Virginia, Rosslyn, Arlington County, Potomac, Washington, Richmond, Arlington, U.S

☆ Amazon's Ring will stop allowing police to request doorbell video footage from users
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Annie Palmer | In Annierpalmer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Amazon 's Ring will no longer allow police to request users' doorbell video footage in its neighborhood watch app. Ring in 2021 made police requests for user footage public in its Neighbors app. Previously, law enforcement could message users privately to request clips from their smart doorbell cameras. Jamie Siminoff, Ring's former CEO, couched the features as a public safety tool that would help communities. "My goal would be to have every law enforcement agency on the police portal," Siminoff told CBS in 2019.

Persons: Ring, Erik Kuhn, Sen, Ed Markey, Jamie Siminoff, Siminoff, Elizabeth Hamren, Kuhn Organizations: Amazon, Police, Privacy, CBS, Microsoft Locations: Seattle

☆ Amazon sued by three employees who allege gender discrimination and 'chronic' pay inequity
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Annie Palmer | In Annierpalmer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The Amazon Spheres, part of the Amazon headquarters campus, right, in the South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, U.S., on Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. Three Amazon staffers sued their employer on Monday alleging gender discrimination and accusing the company of retaliation after they complained of "chronic pay inequity issues." He added that Amazon doesn't tolerate discrimination in the workplace, and it investigates all reported incidents of such behavior. The complaint was filed by Outten & Golden, the same New York law firm that represented a Google executive in her successful gender bias lawsuit, as well as Uber software engineers who sued the company for gender and racial discrimination. Amazon has faced allegations of gender and racial discrimination from tech and corporate workers in recent years.

Persons: Caroline Wilmuth, Katherine Schomer, Erin Combs, Wilmuth, Schomer, Combs, Brad Glasser, Loretta Lynch Organizations: South Lake Union, Amazon, Human Resources Department, Western, of Washington, Outten Locations: South Lake, Seattle , Washington , U.S, U.S, York

[1/3] Amazon workers participate in a walkout at Amazon Headquarters, in Seattle, Washington, U.S., May 31, 2023. REUTERS/Matt Mills McKnightSEATTLE, May 31 (Reuters) - Some Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) employees staged a walkout on Wednesday in protest of the e-commerce giant's changes to its climate policy, layoffs and a return-to-office mandate. More than 1,900 employees had pledged to protest globally, according to the organizers, an activist group known as Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ). In a statement, Amazon spokesperson Brad Glasser said the company is pushing hard to cut its carbon emissions. He added that Amazon listens to employee feedback and was happy with the collaboration that arose from its return-to-office policy.

Persons: Matt Mills McKnight, AECJ, Brad Glasser, Matt McKnight, Tiyashi Datta, Jeffrey Dastin, David Gregorio Our Organizations: Amazon Headquarters, REUTERS, Inc, Amazon Employees, Climate Justice, Amazon, Thomson Locations: Seattle , Washington , U.S, Matt Mills McKnight SEATTLE, Seattle, San Francisco, Bengaluru, Palo Alto , California

☆ Amazon workers plan to walk out over 'lack of trust' in leadership
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Annie Palmer | In Annierpalmer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Amazon employees plan to walk off the job Wednesday in protest of the company's recent return-to-office mandate, layoffs and its environmental record. ET, with about 900 of those workers gathering outside the Spheres, the massive glass domes that anchor Amazon's Seattle headquarters, according to employee groups behind the effort. The walkout is being organized in part by Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, an influential worker organization that has repeatedly pressed the e-retailer on its climate stance. The group said employees are walking out to highlight a "lack of trust in company leadership's decision making." Amazon employees are walking off the job at a precarious time inside the company.

Persons: Andy Jassy, Brad Glasser, we've, Glasser, Amazon Organizations: Seattle, Amazon Employees, Climate Justice, Employees, Amazon, CNBC, Puget, The Center, Investigative, Greenhouse, Accounting Locations: Seattle , Washington, Seattle, Seattle , New York, Northern California

☆ Hundreds of Amazon employees join a new Slack channel to support the company's return-to-office policy after 'sensing the danger' of others calling for permanent remote work
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Some Amazon staff created a new Slack channel to support the company's new return-to-office mandate. The move came after thousands of employees joined a separate Slack channel opposing the RTO plan. Amazon employees are showing far more support for the Slack channel that opposes the new RTO policy. Hundreds of Amazon employees joined a new Slack channel last week that supports the company's new return-to-office policy, Insider has learned — just days after a much larger group of staff rushed to a separate Slack channel that's fighting against the RTO mandate. Still, remote work seems to have more support from Amazon employees, at least based on the number of people in each of the Slack channels.

☆ Amazon employees push CEO Andy Jassy to drop return-to-office mandate
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( Annie Palmer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

A group of Amazon employees is urging CEO Andy Jassy to reconsider a recent return-to-office mandate. Last week, Jassy announced Amazon would require corporate staffers to spent at least three days a week in the office beginning May 1. Staffers on Friday created a Slack channel to advocate for remote work and share their concerns about the new return to work policy, according to screenshots viewed by CNBC. Amazon hasn't addressed whether remote employees will be asked to relocate, beyond Jassy noting that there will be "a small minority" of exceptions to the new policy. WATCH: Andy Jassy on the benefits of remote work

☆ Amazon tells employees to be in the office at least three days a week
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-17 | by ( Annie Palmer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

In response to the coronavirus outbreak, Amazon recommended all employees in its Seattle office to work from home, leaving much of downtown nearly void of people. Amazon is instructing corporate staffers to spend at least three days a week in the office, CEO Andy Jassy wrote in a memo on Friday. Other companies have recently called their employees back to the office either full time or several days a week as the Covid-19 pandemic has eased. Google and Apple have required some of their employees to return to the office since last year, while Disney in January began requiring hybrid employees to be in the office four days a week. Jassy said one of the benefits of being back in the office is that employees will have more opportunities to workshop ideas and innovate.

☆ Amazon layoffs hit workers in robotics, grocery, health and AWS divisions
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( Annie Palmer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The database, which was circulated widely on LinkedIn, provides a window into the businesses hit with layoffs. Subsequent filings with state agencies offered a glimpse into the geographical dispersal of the layoffs. In Amazon's home state of Washington, at least 2,300 employees lost their jobs, according to Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) filings. Here's a breakdown of where job cuts took place. CNBC verified that the staffers listed as Amazon employees worked for the company.

☆ Amazon set to begin new round of layoffs affecting over 18,000 people
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Annie Palmer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The Amazon Spheres, part of the Amazon headquarters campus, right, in the South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, U.S., on Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. Amazon on Wednesday will begin a fresh round of job cuts in what's expected to become the largest workforce cuts in its 28-year history. It comes after Amazon said in November it was looking to cut staff, including in its devices and recruiting organizations. Amazon isn't the only tech company making cuts to its workforce. WATCH: Tech layoffs mount as Amazon announces it's cutting another 18,000 jobs

☆ Amazon is looking to trim headcount through a voluntary buyout program
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Annie Palmer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

In response to the coronavirus outbreak, Amazon recommended all employees in its Seattle office to work from home, leaving much of downtown nearly void of people. Amazon is offering voluntary buyouts to some employees inside the company, as it looks for ways to trim its headcount beyond the massive layoffs already underway. "Voluntary severance" offers were sent out Tuesday and Wednesday to some divisions, including human resources and employee services, according to internal company documents viewed by CNBC. Amazon will inform employees next month that their resignation has been accepted, and their last day of employment will be Dec. 23. The volunteer severance program is a "first step" to realign businesses within Amazon, the documents said, indicating that the divisions could undergo layoffs in the near future.

☆ What Cramer is watching Friday — Amazon drop overdone, Apple's outlier quarter, Big Oil profits
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Shares of the Club holding down 13% in premarket. Apple's quarter was better than expected , an outlier in an otherwise brutal week for Big Tech earnings. Club holding AbbVie (ABBV) solid number, more of the same. Club holding Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) slightly misses on EPS of $7.48. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade.

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