{"id":385341,"date":"2020-11-21T08:35:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T03:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=385341"},"modified":"2020-11-21T09:55:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T04:25:47","slug":"amazon-lays-off-dozens-of-staff-at-prime-air-drone-project-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/amazon-lays-off-dozens-of-staff-at-prime-air-drone-project-says-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon lays off dozens of staff at Prime Air drone project, says report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday it had laid off dozens of staff working on the e-commerce giant&#8217;s delivery drone project as part of a reorganization of the team. <\/p>\n<p>The U.S. retailer has been working on a plan to deliver goods to millions of its customers by using a fleet of unmanned drones, and had received federal approval in August to begin testing commercial deliveries in the country. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are reorganizing one small team within our larger Prime Air organization to allow us to best align with the needs of our customers and the business,&#8221; Amazon spokeswoman Kristen Kish said in a statement, without providing a number on how many employees will be sacked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday it had laid off dozens of staff working on the e-commerce giant&#8217;s delivery drone project as part of a reorganization of the team. The U.S. retailer has been working on a plan to deliver goods to millions of its customers by using a fleet of unmanned drones, and had received federal approval in August to begin testing commercial deliveries in the country. &#8220;We are reorganizing one small team within our larger Prime Air organization to allow us to best align with the needs of our customers and the business,&#8221; Amazon spokeswoman Kristen Kish said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}