According to information received by The Verge portal, Amazon will close the Halo division focused on gadgets for monitoring the health of users. All production of equipment for the unit will be terminated, with the subsequent layoff of the majority of the staff of the Halo team. You Halo View, Halo Band, and Halo Rise products are no longer for sale on the Amazon website..

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Melissa Cha, Amazon’s vice president of smart home and health, said the Halo division was facing “headwinds” and a volatile economic environment. “We have made the difficult decision to end the Halo program, which will result in a reduction in roles. Halo is facing significant hurdles, including an increasingly crowded segment and a volatile economic environment,” Cha said in an email received by The Verge.

Despite the removal of the websites, the devices can still be found in other stores. However, purchasing the devices is discouraged as the company will end support for Halo products on July 31, 2023. Amazon is offering refunds to anyone who purchased a Halo device in the past 12 months. “We are constantly evaluating the progress and potential of our products to add value to customers and are regularly making adjustments based on those evaluations,” Amazon spokeswoman Christy Schmidt told The Verge of the company’s decision.

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The closure of the Halo division is part of another round of layoffs and cost cuts by Amazon. The company recently announced that it would be laying off Whole Foods employees as it restructured the chain. According to the company, Whole Foods will only operate in 6 regions and several employees will be made redundant.

In the case of the Halo division, Amazon did not say how many employees will be affected, but we can assume that a significant number will soon be out of work. Since the beginning of the year, the company has accumulated more than 20,000 layoffs, and the number continues to grow. 2023 will be a particularly challenging year as the vast majority of tech companies are laying off their workforce severely. Names such as Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Spotify and many more are among the companies restructuring their businesses due to a period of uncertainty in the economy.

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Source: Edge

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