New Delhi: Amazon.com Inc said on Wednesday it was closing its Halo division that sells health and sleep trackers as the tech giant initiates broader company layoffs.
The company said it will stop supporting Halo services starting July 31 and will fully refund Halo device purchases made in the previous 12 months.
“Today we are notifying affected employees in the US and Canada,” the company said in a blog post.
The company had introduced the original Halo band in 2020, which came as a fitness tracker along with a subscription to certain Amazon health monitoring and analytics services. It later released a new version called Halo View and Halo Rise, a contactless sleep tracker and smart alarm clock.
as companions apple inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google, Amazon has invested in consumer health tracking technology, sometimes leading to regulatory scrutiny of the sensitive information it purported to collect, such as body fat percentage through your fitness bracelet.
Amazon, which announced in March that it would lay off 9,000 workers as part of its second layoff campaign, began informing some of the affected employees on Wednesday. The heads of Amazon Web Services and the Technology and People Experience team emailed affected staff about the cuts, the company said.
