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In a surprise move, Amazon is shuttering its hybrid virtual, in-home care service, known as Amazon Care, that it spent years developing. The service will end by Dec. 31.

Amazon Care was launched in 2019 for Seattle-based Amazon’s Washington state employees, who served as trial users before the company made it available last year to its workers in all 50 states.

NEW YORK, Aug 25:Amazon is shutting down the hybrid virtual, in-home care service it’s spent years developing, a surprising move that underscores the challenges it faces as it moves into health care. The service, called Amazon Care, will end by December 31, according to an email sent to staff by Neil Lindsay, senior vice president of Amazon Health Services. Amazon Care was launched in 2019 for Seattle-based Amazon’s Washington state employees, who served as trial users before the com...

The company spent years developing Amazon Care.

Online retailer spent years developing the virtual in-home care service. Now it's shutting it down.

Federal work-safety investigators are looking into the death of an Amazon worker and an injury that potentially led to the death of another employee,

Federal work-safety investigators are looking into the death of an Amazon worker and an injury that potentially led to the death of another employee, adding to a probe already underway following a third fatality during the company’s annual Prime Day shopping event in mid-July. All three Amazon workers died within the past month and were…

Federal work-safety investigators are looking into the death of an Amazon worker and an...

Federal work-safety investigators are looking into the death of an Amazon worker and an injury that potentially led to the death of another employee, adding to a probe already underway following a third fatality during the companys annual Prime Day shopping event in mid-July.

Safety officials are investigating recent deaths at Amazon facilities in New Jersey, adding to a probe that was already underway.