Good afternoon. From the KOWW Newsroom, this is Seattle now. I'm Paige Browning. Here are today's top stories. It's Wednesday, April 3rd.

The axe fell on more jobs at Amazon today. Amazon is cutting hundreds of jobs in AWS, its cloud computing unit. It's part of a

strategic shift. Most of the cuts affect the team that overlooks technology for physical stores and in

sales operations. And it comes just a day after Amazon said goodbye to just walk out technology

that it uses in U.S. stores.

Amazon has already made layoffs in its video production units and Twitch this year.

Company leaders say they're making cuts to invest in other business priorities.

One of them is leaning in on artificial intelligence.

Staying on the topic of labor, Seattle City Hall employees just got the return to office mandate.

They'll have to start coming in four days a week, and not everyone's loving this.

Monica Nicholsberg reports.

Seattle City Council President Sarah Nelson told employees the return to office policy will take effect in June.

We're all frontline workers in democracy in the legislative department. Our role is to represent

the people. And so it shouldn't be the lower salaried people that have to be here all the time.

Nelson said the policy is about fairness, since some workers are

already in person full-time. But advocates say flexibility is also an equity issue. Norah Genster

helps place disabled workers in jobs with the Northwest Center. There were important gains for the

disabled population in relation to remote work. What we see now, though, is a return to office,

which worries me. Labor statistics show remote work. What we see now, though, is a return to office, which worries me.

Labor statistics show remote work has helped record rates of workers with disabilities and young kids join the workforce since the pandemic. Monica Nicholsburg, KUOWW News. There's this

silver lining, though, today for Seattle City workers. The City Council has voted to give

4.5% raises to its unionized employees. They'll receive that bump for the next three years

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