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Off the Charts: More people are returning to the office. Is Seattle traffic about to get worse?

Seattle's population has increased by over 15,000 residents since the start of the pandemic, while average commute times have gone down slightly from 28.4 minutes to 25.5 minutes—due in no small part to work-from-home policies.
Teo Popescu
Business

Amazon is ordering employees to go back to pre-Covid, in-office schedules

When 2025 arrives, Amazon will order its employees to go back to the before times with a five-day per week, in-office schedule, at assigned desks.
Dyer Oxley
Environment

‘Troublemakers’ win the day, but questions remain after Amazon drops pipeline plans

Amazon has withdrawn plans to buy natural gas from a proposed pipeline expansion in Oregon. Climate activists and some of the company’s own employees say that’s great news, but they also have questions.
Amy Radil
Environment

A car-free town in the Amazon serves lessons for pedaling to net zero emissions

Afuá, a remote town in the Brazilian Amazon, banned motor vehicles over 20 years ago. Writer Mac Margolis and photographer Stefan Kolumban paid the town a visit to see what life is like.
Mac Margolis
Business

How a stretch of Interstate 20 in the Deep South tells the story of American unions

Three high-profile labor disputes have unfolded in central Alabama over the past several years, with Amazon warehouse workers, coal miners and autoworkers all speaking out for change.
Andrea Hsu

Stephan Bisaha
Business

Amazon's rise to the top explained in 'The Everything War'

As Amazon faces a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit, a new book is out with a fresh look at how it went from a Bellevue garage to a sprawling empire of online retail, cloud computing, and logistics — and a political lightning rod.
Libby Denkmann

Sarah Leibovitz
Government

What would a ban on non-compete clauses mean for tech companies in Washington state?

If the proposed rule change goes into effect, it would change the way companies like Microsoft and Amazon do business.
Kim Malcolm

John O'Brien
Business

Is Amazon’s ‘Just Walk Out’ technology powered by AI or by hundreds of underpaid workers in India?

The world’s first Amazon Go store in Seattle opened on Jan. 22, 2018. The New York Times called it “A Store of the Future,” where all customers had to do was pop an item in their cart and walk out. A little over six years in the future, developers for Amazon's “Just Walk Out” technology are facing layoffs, and the technology itself is being fazed out at 40 Amazon Fresh grocery stores.
Libby Denkmann

Alec Cowan
National

Amazon is cutting hundreds of jobs in its cloud computing unit AWS

The AWS layoffs follow other layoffs that happened at Amazon and its subsidiaries this year, including at Prime Video, the MGM Studios unit and Twitch, the social media platform owned by Amazon.
The Associated Press
National

No more 'just walk out' at Amazon grocery stores. The new bet is smart shopping carts

The retailer banked big on the cashier-less tech. It's now out at Amazon Fresh stores in the U.S. But Amazon's grocery ambitions are only shapeshifting.
Alina Selyukh

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