Amazon is reaching out to its eligible former employees, including some of the workers it laid off for its cloud-computing and artificial intelligence (AI) businesses. Amazon’s AI agent organisation, led by AWS VP Swami Sivasubramanian, has invited former employees in AI and machine learning fields to discuss new roles in what is being described “Swami’s Boomerang Reengagement Initiative.”
The rehirings come in the backdrop of Amazon slashing more than 30,000 jobs in multiple rounds of layoffs over the past year.
As per one of the emails accessed by Business Insider, an AWS Finance recruiter offered an ex-employee a shortened path back to the company and asked if the return-to-office policy drove them away in the first place.
“A lot has changed since you were here, and there’s some really compelling work happening across AI/ML right now,” read one of the…
