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Last year, Amazon made headlines for showing the exit door to 18,000 employees across various departments..
But did you know that there was once a time when the Jeff Bezos-led company offered up to Rs 4 lakh to employees for leaving their jobs?.
As per a report by Moneycontrol, Amazon's co-founder Jeff Bezos had initiated a program in 2014 wherein he offered up to USD 5,000 (roughly Rs 4.1 lakh)..
The option, called "Pay to quit", was offered to employees with the aim of only keeping people who were committed and motivated to stay at the company...
Talking about why he made such an offer to employees, the Amazon co-founder said that the goal was to encourage people to think about what they really want in a minute..
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