Dave Clark, Amazon’s CEO of Consumer Business, an architect of Amazon’s large warehousing operations, announced on Friday that he would leave the company 23 years later. He didn’t say what to do next, and the company didn’t immediately appoint his successor.
“It’s time for me to build it again,” he said. Said In a Twitter memo. His last day is July 1st.
Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon, Said by email To the leadership of the company he wanted to get the latest information on succession plans “over the next few weeks”.
“The past few years have been one of the most difficult and unpredictable things we have faced in the history of Amazon’s consumer business,” Jassy said.
Clark said that Amazon’s business to oversee one of the largest capital investments in corporate history as Amazon moved to develop its own infrastructure for processing and delivering orders on air, trucks and vans. I raised the rank. Under his supervision, the company’s workforce has grown to more than 1.6 million people.
At the same time, the model Clark built is facing increasing pressure. Policy makers and employees are questioning the company’s employment model. This model offers an average minimum wage of over $ 18 per hour, but it depends on the flow of workers in and out of the company. This year’s Staten Island workers voted to form a union in which the company is competing.
The company’s latest financial results show that Amazon has grown excessively and has more warehouses and workforce than customers demand, as the e-commerce pandemic backlash has receded. Company executives said they were trying to rebalance spending.
“Our team is serious about improving the productivity and cost efficiency of the entire fulfillment network,” Jassy said in a statement at the time.
Clark was an active defender of Amazon.and Tweet Since then, he has removed and last year led Vermont’s independent Senator Bernie Sanders to support workers seeking to form a union. “We often say we’re employer Bernie Sanders, but that’s not true because we actually offer a progressive workplace,” Clark wrote. In another tweet that was deleted, Sanders wrote, “I need to save his finger-waving lecture until I actually deliver it in my backyard.”
The top Amazon ranks have undergone the greatest changes in their history over the last two years. Clark was promoted to run a consumer business when his longtime executive Jeff Wilk retired. Then, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos resigned as CEO last year and appointed Jassy as his successor.
Under Bezos, Clark had significant autonomy to build Amazon’s business. Jassy, who built and ran Amazon’s cloud computing operations before taking on the role of Chief Executive Officer, has delved into some of the companies that were not previously directly managed.He swore Deal systematically Employee concerns.
Last fall, Clark moved from Amazon-based Seattle to Dallas, where the company doesn’t have a major corporate presence. end.
