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By Karen Weiss
Amazon told workers in an email Wednesday that it would shut down Amazon Care, its internal foray into offering the number one and pressing health care. deal of a billion.
For years, Amazon has sought to find its own tactics for entering the healthcare industry, which, according to company executives, provides an excellent opportunity for expansion.
Amazon Care began in 2019 with the purpose of serving Amazon’s own employees, first only in Washington state. It has since expanded, providing virtual tours across the country and making plans to have in-person facilities in 20 cities this year, according to an announcement in February.
The company has tried to recruit more members and hire other employers to offer the service to its staff, but with limited success. It recently promoted Silicon Labs, TrueBlue and Amazon-owned Whole Foods Market as customers.
“While our registered members enjoyed many facets of Amazon Care, it’s not a comprehensive enough offering for the giant corporations we target and wouldn’t work in the long run,” said Neil Lindsay, senior vice president of Amazon Care. Amazon Health Services said in an email to the painters shared with the New York Times.
About 400 painters paint on Amazon Care, according to a user familiar with the program. Lindsay’s email said that “many” people who painted at Amazon Care would find new positions internally. The company did not say whether the painters would be fired if they can’t get a new position at Amazon.
Lindsay said the decision to end the program has been in the spotlight for “many months” and Amazon Care will stop running at the end of the year.
Amazon declined to comment beyond the email, which was first reported through Seattle tech news site GeekWire.
Last month, Amazon announced plans to buy One Medical, which runs a chain of number one care clinics in cities across the country. Amazon began talks with One Medical in February, according to regulatory filings, and the deal is pending regulatory approval.
One Medical has hired more than 8500 employers, adding leading corporations like Google, to provide memberships to staff and also sells memberships to consumers.
“I believe the field of physical care is ripe to be reinvented, and our efforts to help improve the fitness care experience can have an incredibly positive effect on our quality of life and fitness outcomes,” M. Lindsay in the email.
This spring, Andy Jassy, Amazon’s lead executive, praised Amazon Care in a letter to shareholders as the kind of “iterative innovation” that allows the company to experiment quickly. He said preparing for failure is key to inventing and that the company is looking to “secure wonderful landing sites for team members who performed well, or their most productive painters will be reluctant to paint on new initiatives. “
By Ana Swanson
According to researchers from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the University of Maryland and Harvard University.
In a blog post Wednesday, Julian di Giovanni, head of climate threat studies at the New York Fed’s studies and statistics group, summarized the findings of an article filed in June that found that increased customer demand for all kinds of products was to blame for the pandemic. about 60% of U. S. inflation. USA between 2019 and 2021.
Supply shocks, which come with shortages of workers, raw fabrics and shipping boxes needed to produce and ship goods around the world, accounted for the remaining 40% of inflation in the model, with 58 of the 66 business sectors known through studies experiencing restricted sources.
The researchers concluded that, without the bottlenecks of the source, inflation in the U. S. will be the result of the source. The US would have been 6% at the end of 2021, 9%. bottlenecks have contributed more to inflation in Europe.
“The result of this decomposition is that source constraints have increased the effect of higher demand on inflation,” Mr. di Giovanni said.
The effects generate a reaction to a debate that lawmakers and politicians have struggled over the nature of inflation, which slowed slightly to 8. 5% in July. While many economists point out that generous government spending to help Americans during the pandemic is key to driving inflation, Biden’s management has blamed global supply chain disruptions and emerging fuel costs as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The debate has implications for the steps politicians can take to fight value gains. The Federal Reserve has aggressively raised interest rates in an attempt to stifle customer demand and the economy, but it has no tools to ease source restrictions.
Congress and Biden’s management have begun investing heavily in infrastructure and incentivizing key product brands such as semiconductors to invest in the United States. But the effect of those policies will take years to feel.
There have been symptoms recently that supply chain impacts are diminishing, and M. di Giovanni said this may be good news for the inflation rate in the United States. In the absence of new energy shocks or other surprises, it is conceivable that easing bottlenecks in the supply chain “may cause a really extensive decline in inflation in the short term,” he wrote Wednesday.
By Joe Renison
Investors are preparing for Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome H. Powell sternly warns that the bank has ended its crusade to curb inflation with higher interest rates.
On Friday, Powell will speak at the Kansas City Fed’s economic policy symposium at Wyoming’s Jackson Hole hotel domain, the central bank’s largest annual conference. in July, the central bank intends to moderate demand by raising borrowing costs, which is bad for the stock market.
But for a high of more than two months, the stock has risen. From mid-June to mid-August, the S
Some on Wall Street see Powell’s speech Friday as an opportunity for him to explain that the Fed is in a position to be aggressive, moving away from its dovish tone.
“There has been a disconnect between the Fed’s rhetoric and market movements in recent weeks,” said Kristina Hooper, lead global markets strategist at Invesco. “This is the time when markets start worrying about being wrong. “
These considerations have been on display over the past week.
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