Senior Amazon executive announces one year break

San Francisco: Choosing a one-year sabbatical from work life, Amazon’s Senior Vice President Jeff Blackburn has decided to take some time off in 2020.

Blackburn, who had joined Amazon in 1998, informed the staff about his decision via an email on Wednesday.

“It’s never easy to find a good time for a break when always scaling so fast, but now feels like the right time for me and my family,” news portal Variety quoted the Amazon executive as saying in the email.