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<keyword id="4009819" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Amazon-Pay">Amazon Pay</keyword> on Friday launched <keyword id="9465336" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Smart-Stores">Smart Stores</keyword> feature in India where customers need to scan the store's QR code using the <keyword id="18635" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Amazon">Amazon</keyword> app to begin exploring the products available within the store. The 'Smart Store' feature would empower local shops with capabilities to increase footfalls, improve customer experience and generate more sales, the company said in a statement. "Amazon Pay is already accepted at millions of local shops, we are trying to make customers' buying experience at local shops even more convenient and safe through Smart Stores," said Mahendra Nerurkar, CEO, Amazon Pay. After selecting the products, customers buy with Amazon Pay, which gives them a choice of using UPI, balance, or credit or debit cards. Customers can on-the-spot convert a transaction into an EMI, and from time-to-time avail exciting rewards from their banks or through Amazon Pay. Smart Store will enable a local shop to launch a digital storefront, thereby enabling customers to discover products, read reviews, evaluate offers while in the store or from anywhere using the Amazon app. I will also enable local shops to offer Amazon Pay reward coupons to attract new customers. Thousands of local shops across the country have already signed up as Amazon Pay Smart Stores, like Sri Balaji Kitchens in Vishakapatnam, USHA Company Store in Jabalpur and outlets of brands such as Big Bazaar, MedPlus and More Supermarkets. "Through EMIs, bank offers and rewards, we seek to make these purchases more affordable and rewarding for customers, and help increase sales for <keyword id="186480" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Merchants">merchants</keyword>," Nerurkar added.

Amazon Pay launches 'smart stores' to empower local merchants in India

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="4009819" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Amazon-Pay">Amazon Pay</keyword> is a service offered by <keyword id="18635" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Amazon">Amazon</keyword> to let you use your account to make purchases at third-party retail sites.</li><li>You can use this method to securely and conveniently make purchases without entering a payment method at the website. </li><li>Hundreds of websites accept Amazon Pay at checkout, but there's no comprehensive list online — often, you will simply discover that a site accepts Amazon Pay when you reach checkout. </li></ul><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/amazon-pay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amazon Pay</a> is a payment method accepted by a variety of websites and online retailers. It allows you to use your existing payment method already associated with <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/amazon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amazon</a> on sites that support the service. It's designed to offer a safe, secure, and convenient payment option on third-party retail sites. Rather than adding your credit card or other payment method to a new site you might not completely trust, you can choose to use Amazon Pay, which automatically uses your existing Amazon account to complete the purchase. <h2>How to sign up for Amazon Pay</h2>One of the advantages of using Amazon Pay is that there is, in fact, no sign-up process — if you have an Amazon account and associate a credit card or other payment method with it, there is no further set-up needed. It is simply available and works automatically when you try to make a purchase at a participating website. <h2>Where you can use Amazon Pay</h2>There is no comprehensive list of sites and retailers that use Amazon Pay. Currently, hundreds of websites make use of Amazon Pay. In general, you won't see if a site supports Amazon Pay until you get to the shopping cart or checkout page. If a site supports Amazon Pay, you should see a button with the Amazon Pay logo, often in a "fast checkout" category with other options like <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/google-pay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google Pay</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/paypal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PayPal</a>. <div type="image" title="What_is_Amazon_Pay 1" height="1088" width="1780" msid="79201135" hostid="261"></div><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/amazon-alexa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amazon Alexa</a> also uses Amazon Pay to process payment for products you order from Amazon using your voice.<h2>How to use Amazon Pay</h2>Amazon Pay is intended to be convenient, so it seamlessly integrates into the checkout process. To make a purchase using Amazon Pay, start the checkout process like you would for any purchase at a retail site. 1. When you reach the checkout page and need to enter your payment method, click "Amazon Pay." <div type="image" title="What_is_Amazon_Pay 2" height="1365" width="1854" msid="79201137" hostid="261"></div>2. In the pop-up window, sign into your Amazon account or continue through your account if you're already logged in. <div type="image" title="What_is_Amazon_Pay 3" height="1370" width="1859" msid="79201138" hostid="261"></div>3. Follow any necessary prompts to complete the purchase.<h2>Related coverage from <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-reference" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tech Reference</a>:</h2><ul><li><h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-two-factor-authentication" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How to set up two-factor authentication on Amazon to protect your account data and payment information </a></h3></li><li><h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-reload-gift-card-balance-on-amazon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How to reload your Amazon gift card balance online, or set up an auto-reload schedule</a></h3></li><li><h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-change-amazon-password" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How to change your Amazon account password or reset it if you've forgotten it</a></h3></li><li><h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-set-up-google-pay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How to set up and use Google Pay on your Android phone to make contactless payments at thousands of stores</a></h3></li><li><h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-use-apple-pay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How to set up and use Apple Pay on your iPhone to make contactless payments at thousands of stores</a></h3></li></ul>

What is Amazon Pay? How to use the online retailer's virtual payment service on other sites

Don’t limit yourself from using <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=%E2%80%98Pay+with+Amazon%E2%80%99+&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">‘Pay with Amazon’ </a>while shopping on <keyword id="18635" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Amazon">Amazon</keyword> only as the option has now been extended to third party websites. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Amazon+&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Amazon </a>has tied up with as many as 25 online brand stores so far and is offering instant cashbacks and refunds. 
 
Through 'Pay with Amazon' on third-party websites, the e-c0mmerce website wants to broaden its payments wallet space. 
 Some of the known brands that Amazon has ties up with include <keyword id="271821" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="CROCS">Crocs</keyword>, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Sennheiser&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Sennheiser</a>, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Caf%C3%A9+Coffee+Day&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Café Coffee Day</a>. It is also trying to partner with smaller merchants on-boarding platforms such as <keyword id="4095832" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="kartrockand-zepo">Kartrockand Zepo</keyword> to integrate an option for payment using instruments like saved card details and pre-paid balance on Amazon for checkouts. 
 
Reportedly, the company is also in talks with app-based consumer businesses in the online food aggregation, travel, ticketing and entertainment space for its broader payments play. 
 The e-commerce giant, recently hired <keyword id="62152" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="IDFC-Bank">IDFC Bank</keyword>'s chief digital and data officer, <keyword id="1994262" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sriraman-Jagannathan">Sriraman Jagannathan</keyword>, as vice-president to head the payments vertical to make its dream come true. The company had also acquired payment gateway and mobile wallet company Emvantage in February 2016. 
 
"Through our partnership with banks, we have reduced the friction, doing away with a two-factor authentication and increased the convenience for the customers transacting on mobile during bad network. We have built robust protocols to reduce failure points during transaction," Jagannathan told ET. 
 
Pay with Amazon has integrated its system with <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=SBI&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">SBI</a>, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=HDFC&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">HDFC</a>, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=ICICI&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">ICICI</a>, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Citibank&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Citibank</a> and others to reduce friction in transaction. 
 
Pay with Amazon was a part of the first sale by Amazon in 2017 and the online platform did everything it could to incentivise users to transact using Amazon P Balance for 15% cashbacks. 
 
"We want users to transact even nominal amounts as low as Rs 250 for self-use to experience the payment. It is also an important leg for the sale," Jagannathan told ET. 
 
He also said that the payments vertical will also use the data for matching consumers and banks for credit requirements going ahead. 
 The upper limit for transactions through <keyword id="3986451" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Amazon-Pay-Balance">Amazon Pay Balance</keyword> is currently 10,000.

‘Pay with Amazon’ is offering instant cashbacks, refunds on third party transactions too. Here are the details

<ul><li>Exchange your Rs. 2000 notes with <keyword id="4009819" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="amazon-pay" source="Orion">Amazon Pay</keyword> during your next COD order.</li><li>You can exchange up to Rs. 50,000 worth of Rs. 2000 notes per month with <keyword id="18635" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="amazon" source="Orion">Amazon</keyword> Pay.</li><li>Here’s how you can do it.</li></ul>Exchanging the soon to be defunct Rs 2,000 notes one processes can be a hassle amidst one’s daily packed hustle and bustle. Now, Amazon has made an announcement regarding this to help with the process. The decision follows the <keyword id="6354335" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="reserve-bank-of-india" source="Orion">Reserve Bank of India</keyword>'s decision on May 19 to withdraw all Rs. 2,000 currency notes from circulation as part of its Clean Note Policy. The central bank of India has provided a window until September 30 for individuals to deposit or exchange their existing notes. Given the challenges faced by many individuals in exchanging or depositing their notes at banks, Amazon has introduced an initiative to facilitate the process for its customers. According to Amazon's official statement, customers will now have the option to use their Rs. 2,000 notes for topping up their Amazon Pay balances during cash-on-delivery orders. Any remaining change will be loaded into their Amazon Pay wallet. To ensure a smooth process, Amazon has set a maximum limit of Rs. 50,000 per month that customers can deposit, which includes notes of the Rs. 2,000 denomination. This initiative aims to provide convenience and flexibility to customers who are seeking to convert their Rs. 2,000 notes into a digital form. Here’s how to exchange Rs. 2,000 note using the Amazon Pay wallet. <ul><li>Customers are required to initiate the video KYC process on the Amazon app.</li><li>After successfully completing the KYC, customers can proceed to place a cash on delivery order.</li><li>During the delivery, customers can provide the cash payment to the delivery agent.</li><li>The delivery agent will promptly update the customer's Amazon Pay balance with the remaining amount.</li></ul>The updated balance in the Amazon Pay wallet can be utilized for various purposes such as online shopping, QR code payments, recharging services, sending money to friends and family, as well as making digital payments on applications like Swiggy and Zomato. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/if-you-are-a-google-one-subscriber-you-can-now-access-portrait-blur-colour-pop-and-more-advanced-editing-tools-on-photos-web/articleshow/101009287.cms">If you are a Google One subscriber, you can now access Portrait Blur, Colour Pop and more advanced editing tools on Photos web</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/google-bard-cool-things-you-can-do-with-the-ai-chatbot/articleshow/101012445.cms">Google Bard: Cool things you can do with the AI chatbot</a>

You need not visit a bank to exchange your Rs 2,000 notes – Here’s how Amazon can help you

<ul><li><keyword id="6354743" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Amazon-India">Amazon India</keyword> partnered with <keyword id="245140" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bharat-Gas">Bharat Gas</keyword> to offer gas bill payment feature.</li><li>Through this partnership, customers also get 50% cashback for all cylinders booked through <keyword id="4009819" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Amazon-Pay">Amazon Pay</keyword> until 30th November 2019. </li><li>Utility bill payments has long been a feature that almost every other digital payment wallet offers. </li></ul>For long now, paying gas bills and booking a new cylinder had been a hassle for Indian consumers. But now <keyword id="18635" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Amazon">Amazon</keyword> India and Bharat Gas partnered to help Indians pay their gas bills online. Through this partnership, customers also get 50% cashback for all cylinders booked through Amazon Pay until 30th November 2019. “Our mission at Amazon Pay is to reduce friction from day-to-day payments. Often, customers prefer cash payments for their everyday essentials, due to lack of awareness or inconvenient digital payment interface. Our partnership with Bharat Gas will simplify the payment experience and benefit millions of Indian households,” said Mahendra Nerurkar, Director, Amazon Pay. But Amazon Pay is not the first to offer this service. Utility bill payments has long been a feature that almost every other digital payment wallet has. Digital payments leader Paytm introduced the feature over a year back and also helps users book HP cylinders. Several other payment platforms followed suit and consumers got the chance to pay via BHIM or through Google Pay, PhonePe etc.

Amazon India offers an option to pay gas bills online, but it might be too late

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11893181" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="amazon" source="Orion">Amazon</keyword> employees in 20 countries are preparing to strike or protest on <keyword id="12123388" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="black-friday" source="Orion">Black Friday</keyword> as part of the "Make Amazon Pay" campaign. </li><li>The campaign includes a coalition of 70 organizations, including Greenpeace, Oxfam, and Amazon Workers International.</li></ul>Amazon employees around the world are preparing to strike on Black Friday in an effort to improve working conditions and demand accountability from top executives.Workers and activists in more than 20 countries are expected to protest as part of a campaign led by <a href="https://makeamazonpay.com/">"Make Amazon Pay,"</a> a coalition of 70 trade <keyword id="12087076" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="unions" source="Orion">unions</keyword> and organizations including Greenpeace, Oxfam, and Amazon Workers International.Individuals everywhere "from oil refineries, to factories, to warehouses, to data centers, to corporate offices" are expected to participate in the November 26 event, according to the campaign. "The pandemic has exposed how Amazon places profits ahead of workers, society, and our planet," Make Amazon Pay wrote in a list of demands <a href="https://makeamazonpay.com/">shared on its website</a>. "Amazon takes too much and gives back too little. It is time to Make Amazon Pay." The protests come amid growing dissent from Amazon employees over working conditions, including long hours, low pay, and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-annual-performance-review-process-bonus-salary-2021-4">complex performance review systems</a>. Make Amazon Pay's demands include increased salaries, better job security, and "suspending the harsh productivity and surveillance regime Amazon has used to squeeze workers."The coalition also calls for a "pay back to society" that includes enhanced sustainability efforts, increased transparency over data and privacy, and ending partnerships with police forces and immigration authorities that are "institutionally racist.""Amazon is not alone in these bad practices but it sits at the heart of a failed system that drives the inequality, climate breakdown, and democratic decay that scar our age," Make Amazon Pay wrote in its demands. In a statement, Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel told Insider that the company is "inventing and investing significantly" in several of the categories the campaign addresses, including climate efforts, like a commitment to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 and pushes to improve competitive wages and benefits. "These groups represent a variety of interests, and while we are not perfect in any area, if you objectively look at what Amazon is doing in each one of these areas you'll see that we do take our role and our impact very seriously," Nantel said. The rise of Make Amazon Pay also follows a fraught push for unionization across the company, including most recently at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island which <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/10/25/1048956134/amazon-warehouse-workers-in-new-york-to-file-for-union-vote">filed for a union vote last month</a>. The <keyword id="11894549" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="e-commerce" source="Orion">e-commerce</keyword> giant became embroiled in controversy earlier this year after <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-takes-another-swipe-union-alabama-rematch-looms-2021-11-04/">reports surfaced</a> that it allegedly participated in union-busting tactics that may have thwarted a vote at a warehouse in Alabama.As part of the Make Amazon Pay effort, the campaign also accused Amazon of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-billionaires-avoid-paying-federal-income-tax-2021-6#:~:text=Amazon%20CEO%20Jeff%20Bezos%20didn,taxes%20through%20legal%20financial%20manipulation.">dodging taxes</a>. According to a <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax">ProPublica report published in June</a>, its founder Jeff Bezos didn't pay any income taxes between 2006 and 2018. He is currently the richest person in the world with a net worth of $210.7 billion."During the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon became a trillion dollar corporation, with Bezos becoming the first person in history to amass $200 billion in personal wealth," Make Amazon Pay wrote on its website. "Meanwhile, Amazon warehouse workers risked their lives as essential workers, and only briefly received an increase in pay."Make Amazon Pay was first formed in 2020 and has since helped drive a series of strikes and protests against company policies, particularly as unrest mounted during the pandemic. "Amazon's wealth has increased so much during the pandemic that its owners could pay all 1.3 million of its employees a $690,000 COVID bonus and still be as rich as they were in 2020," a video states on the Make Amazon Pay website.

Amazon workers in 20 countries will strike or protest on Black Friday for better working conditions

Happy Monday (and Valentine's Day), readers. Today we're taking you inside <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employees-new-compensation-ranges-2022-2">Amazon employees' pay raises</a>, and showing you <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-bronco-everglades-suv-snorkel-off-roading-swamp-snorkel-2022-2">a new off-roading Bronco.</a>Let's get started. If this was forwarded to you, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/subscription/newsletter/10-things-in-tech">sign up here</a>. Download Insider's app – click <a href="https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id554260576">here for iOS</a> and <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.freerange360.mpp.businessinsider">here for Android</a>.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employees-new-compensation-ranges-2022-2"></a>1. Some Amazon employees are about to see major pay bumps. According to compensation data obtained by Insider, some of Amazon's salaried US employees will see increases between 10% and 30% to their paychecks in April. <ul><li>The increases are part of the commerce giant's effort to retain employees by boosting compensation — and come just a week after the company announced it would be raising maximum base pay <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-increases-base-salary-cap-350000-memo-2022-2">from $160,000 to $350,000.</a></li><li>The gains highlight just how much pressure the notoriously frugal <keyword id="6358815" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="tech" source="Orion">tech</keyword> giant is under to contain <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employee-frustrations-over-low-pay-reach-crisis-point-2022-1">a crisis of employee discontent over pay.</a></li><li>Amazon's hourly workforce, including almost 800,000 US warehouse workers, are excluded from the new pay plan, as are corporate staff <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-managers-performance-reviews-hire-to-fire-internal-turnover-goal-2021-5">rated "least effective"</a> by the company's performance-review system. </li></ul><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employees-new-compensation-ranges-2022-2">See what else the data obtained by Insider revealed.</a>Plus: How much should you be getting paid? Compare 250,000 salaries from top companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft with <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/salary-database-google-goldman-amazon-how-much-top-jobs-pay-2021-7?r=salary-hp">Insider's Salary Database.</a>In other news:<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/im-one-of-2800-people-peloton-laid-off-im-shocked-2022-2"></a><div type="image" title="A user watching an instructor on a Peloton bike." height="5399" width="7199" msid="89568385" hostid="261"></div>2. A former Peloton employee describes being laid off. After more than a year working as a field-operations specialist for Peloton, the employee was one of 2,800 people Peloton let go, and said it felt sudden, cold, and scripted. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/im-one-of-2800-people-peloton-laid-off-im-shocked-2022-2">This is what else the employee told us.</a>3. Startups are working to reduce users' screen time and redefine their relationships with social media. Phone usage spiked last year, with typical Android users spending four hours a day on their phones — but startups like Blloc and Kin are pushing back against tech's stranglehold on attention. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/startups-change-your-relationship-with-tech-and-social-media-2022">How they're trying to pull users away from phones.</a>4. Amazon is taking away paid COVID-19 leave for unvaccinated workers. In a memo to staff, Amazon announced that unvaccinated employees who get sick will not be eligible for paid leave beginning March 18. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-takes-away-paid-covid-19-leave-unvaccinated-workers-2022-2">Here are other company updates.</a>5. Salesforce says it will tie executive pay to diversity and inclusion goals. The company's ability to hire, retain, and promote employees from underrepresented groups will determine its top leaders' pay, including for co-CEOs Marc Benioff and Bret Taylor. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce-executive-salaries-diversity-inclusion-goals-marc-benioff-2022-2">Everything we know about the goals.</a>6. ICYMI: Car companies used Super Bowl ads to convince viewers to go electric. Automakers like BMW, GM, and Kia splashed out on ads with celebrities like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Eugene Levy to promote their newest electric models. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/super-bowl-ads-commercials-electric-cars-bmw-nissan-kia-2022-2">Watch the star-studded ads.</a>7. After landing his dream job at Google, this former employee quit twice. Ken Waks, who worked as a strategy and operations analyst at Google, said he was only working 30 minutes to an hour each day because there was so little to do — but that there wasn't much room to collaborate or push himself. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/i-quit-my-google-job-twice-ken-waks-2022-2">He explains why he left Google.</a>8. Coinbase kicked off the Super Bowl ad war with an instantly viral hit. The cryptocurrency exchange differed massively from the other high-budget ads by simply showing a multi-colored QR code bouncing around the screen like the logo of a DVD player's screensaver. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coinbase-superbowl-ad-shows-bouncing-qr-code-blank-screen-2022-2">Here's how Coinbase captured viewers' attention.</a>Odds and ends:<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-bronco-everglades-suv-snorkel-off-roading-swamp-snorkel-2022-2"></a><div type="image" title="The 2022 Ford Bronco Everglades." height="1477" width="1970" msid="89568388" hostid="261"></div>9. Ford just unveiled its new Bronco Everglades. With a built-in snorkel, the $54,495 SUV is built for tackling thick mud, treacherous swamps, and off-road terrain. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-bronco-everglades-suv-snorkel-off-roading-swamp-snorkel-2022-2">Check out the special-edition Bronco Everglades here.</a>10. Review: Supernatural is like Peloton — but in the metaverse. Supernatural, an immersive fitness game for Oculus VR headsets, offers a full-body workout set in stunning locations around the world. <a href="https://www.insider.com/guides/health/fitness/supernatural-review">Why the VR fitness app is this writer's new favorite way to work out.</a>What we're watching today:<ul><li><a href="https://voxmediaevents.com/pivotmia">Pivot MIA</a> takes place today through Feb. 16.</li><li>The US Chamber of Commerce is holding a <a href="https://events.uschamber.com/FTCWilson">"TecTalk" discussion</a> with FTC commissioner Christine Wilson.</li></ul>Curated by Jordan Parker Erb in New York. (Feedback or tips? Email <a href="mailto:jerb@insider.com">jerb@insider.com</a> or tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/jordanparkererb?lang=en">@jordanparkererb</a>.) Edited by Michael Cogley in London.

10 Things in Tech: Amazon pay bump

You're halfway through the week, readers. On today's agenda, we've got <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-bought-twitter-attack-pete-buttigieg-2022-4">more Elon Musk news</a>, a dash of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employee-compensation-pay-new-salary-update-range-2022-4">Amazon compensation drama</a>, and some fun <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kia-ev6-electric-car-suv-review-gt-line-2022-4">electric vehicle stuff</a>, as a treat. Let's dive in.If this was forwarded to you, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/subscription/newsletter/10-things-in-tech">sign up here</a>. Download Insider's app – click <a href="https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id554260576">here for iOS</a> and <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.freerange360.mpp.businessinsider">here for Android</a>.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employee-compensation-pay-new-salary-update-disappointed-2022-4"></a>1. Amazon employees have mixed feelings about their updated salaries. When Amazon announced a shift in its compensation plan in February, employees anticipated major salary bumps. But after receiving their updated pay stubs this month, many are expressing <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employee-compensation-pay-new-salary-update-range-2022-4">dashed hopes</a> of substantially higher income.<ul><li>Insider spoke with more than a dozen employees, and while some reported as high as 90% increase in total compensation, others said their raises fell short of expectations.</li><li>Record levels of inflation, combined with Amazon's <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employee-frustrations-over-low-pay-reach-crisis-point-2022-1">notoriously frugal pay</a>, has sent some employees searching for jobs at different companies.</li><li>"...you're seeing executives getting raises," one employee said. "But the very people from the warehouse level to the corporate side are not seeing a massive increase."</li></ul><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employee-compensation-pay-new-salary-update-range-2022-4">Here's what else employees told us.</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-electric-f150-lightning-electric-pickup-truck-factory-tour-photos-2021-9"></a><div type="image" title="Ford F-150 Lightning" height="3200" width="4266" msid="91123424" hostid="261"></div>In other news:2. Ford is already planning an electric truck to follow the F-150 Lightning. 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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Amazon is spending big on content and new hires as it takes on Netflix, Disney+, and others in streaming.</li><li>It recently listed 255 job openings at Prime Video, 100 of them in the US.</li></ul>While most of Hollywood has <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/streamers-networks-rein-in-content-spending-in-profitability-push-2022-11">trimmed its entertainment budget</a>, Amazon shelled out $18.9 billion on music and video in 2023, a 14% increase, according to its <a target="_blank" href="https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001018724/c7c14359-36fa-40c3-b3ca-5bf7f3fa0b96.pdf">annual report</a>.Despite laying <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-layoffs-several-hundred-employees-prime-video-mgm-studios-memo-2024-1">off hundreds</a> in entertainment in January, the company is still hiring to build out Prime Video, home to mainstream fare like "The Boys" and "Reacher" and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jay-marine-leading-amazon-sports-ambitions-nba-rights-2024-3">live sports programming</a> like NFL's "Thursday Night Football."Amazon recently listed 255 job openings in Prime Video on its site, including 100 in the US, from program managers to software developers.These salaries represent annual base pay, which varies by geographic market and doesn't include equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation and benefits.They include salaries ranging from $64,200 to $245,000 for digital program managers, $115,000 to $223,600 for software development engineers, and $63,000 to $151,700 for an advertising insights manager.<h2><a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-salary-data-how-much-it-pays-prime-video-jobs-2024-4">Read a breakdown of what Amazon pays Prime Video employees by job title</a></h2>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Amazon workers in 40 countries plan to protest what they describe as the tech giant's unfair pay and unsafe practices.</li><li>The protests are part of the "Make Amazon Pay" movement which includes 80 organizations.</li></ul>Black Friday is traditionally one of Amazon's busiest days of the year, but the tech giant will face an additional challenge this Friday when its workers in nearly 40 countries protest unfair pay and unsafe practices.The protests are part of the "Make Amazon Pay" movement, which includes 80 trade unions, environmental action groups, and other organizations. They are demanding fair pay for Amazon workers and the right for workers to join unions, <a href="https://apple.news/Am4x2Trt-RySKkY4GBtdlug">according to Fortune</a>. The coalition is also demanding that Amazon pay its fair share of taxes and commit to environmental sustainability.As part of the protests, Amazon workers in France, Germany, the US, India, Ireland, and South Africa are organizing some form of protest in their respective countries, from strikes and walkouts to demonstrations outside Amazon offices. Amazon, for its part, acknowledged the issues put forth by Make Amazon Pay, and said it was working towards improving in areas like climate change and employee health and safety. "We are inventing and investing significantly in all these areas, playing a significant role in addressing climate change with the Climate pledge commitment to be net zero carbon by 2040, continuing to offer competitive wages and great benefits, and inventing new ways to keep our employees safe and healthy in our operations network, to name just a few," an Amazon spokesperson <a href="https://apple.news/Am4x2Trt-RySKkY4GBtdlug">told Fortune</a> in a statement.Amazon has attempted in more recent years to shed its longstanding reputation as a grueling place to work, rolling out programs like <a href="https://affiliate.insider.com?postID=637fcc9caa84994fc00917c3&amp;site=in&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aboutamazon.com%2Fnews%2Fworkplace%2Fmeet-employees-behind-amazons-new-health-and-wellness-program">WorkingWell</a> to help employees "focus on their physical and mental well-being." But for Amazon workers, health and safety remains a significant area of concern, with data indicating that Amazon's brisk pace of work, for instance, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/warehouse-injuries-amazon-chronic-pain-speed-risk-productivity-targets-employees-2022-10">increases the risk of injury for its US warehouse workers.</a>

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