Reuters
- Amazon laid off more than 27,000 people in 2023.
- The company also announced return-to-office plans in February.
- One senior employee said RTO plans were one tactic Amazon used to weed out employees.
On September 1, Justin Garrison's senior role and team at Amazon Web Services, Amazon's cloud computing subsidiary, was eliminated.
He wasn't fired. He just no longer had a role. He's still getting his regular paychecks, as seen in the paystubs he shared with Business Insider.
For the past four months, Garrison has been stuck in limbo at Amazon, where his managers won't let him go or assign him new work but instead tell him to look for another role internally or find a job somewhere else.