Amazon employees are walking out to demand action on climate change.

[Today is the Global Climate Strike and Amazon’s corporate employees are here for it.](High school students in cities nationwide plan to skip classes today to join Global Climate Strike marches and call for immediate action to end climate change. [More than 1,500 Amazon employees](amazonemployeesclimatejustice/amazon-employees-are-joining-the-global-climate-walkout-9-20-9bfa4cbb1ce3) plan to join them to demand that their company reduce its carbon footprint. It’s the first time in Amazon’s 25-year history that its corporate employees will participate in a walkout demonstration. Ahead of the walkout, CEO Jeff Bezos announced Thursday that Amazon will be meeting the goals of the Paris climate agreement and that his company is pledging to be carbon neutral by 2040. - Amazon employees are asking, but Amazon hasn’t really answered: Employees made three demands of Bezos on climate change: They asked that the company have zero emissions by 2030, that it stop offering AWS cloud-computing services to the oil and gas industry, and that Amazon stop giving campaign donations to climate-change-denying politicians. Bezos has so far punted on many of their demands. [[Shirin Ghaffary / Recode](] [Amazon’s new PayCode service is the company’s latest attempt to court Walmart shoppers.](Amazon announced a new pay-with-cash option for its online shoppers this week. Even though the name “Walmart” didn’t appear anywhere in its press release, the new service is just the company’s latest attempt to appeal to lower-income shoppers in the US who have long turned to low-price retail chains like Walmart instead of Amazon. By introducing the pay-with-cash option, Amazon could better appeal to the more than 8 million low-income households that do not have bank accounts, and thus no debit or bank-affiliated credit cards. - How it works: With PayCode, online shoppers can complete an order on Amazon and then pay for that order in cash in the next 24 hours at one of 15,000 Western Union locations. But PayCode’s launch prompts an obvious question: If you’re going to go to a Western Union to pay for your Amazon order, wouldn’t you just buy the item at another local brick-and-mortar store and have it that day? [[Jason Del Rey / Recode](] [Airbnb is going public.](TechCrunch reports that the company announced this week that it plans to go public in 2020, making it one of the last unicorns of the last 10 years to go public. Airbnb said this week that it hit over $1 billion in revenue for the second quarter of 2019 (and for the second time in the company’s history). - There could be rocks ahead: Airbnb’s success will depend on how well it can walk the line between government regulation and scrutiny over the company’s impact on housing prices and availability. The service has led to “the creation of vacant apartments and homes that are only investment properties which increase Airbnb’s housing stock,” TechCrunch writes. [[Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch](] [Big companies are bailing on Slack. But it’s still king at startups.](Nearly 60 percent of funded startups pay for Slack’s workplace communications software, compared to just 12 percent that pay for its competitor Microsoft’s similar software, Teams. This is good news for Slack, [which has taken a hit lately]( as competitors — particularly Teams, which comes essentially free for those who already have the ubiquitous Office Suite — have [eaten into its market share.](But the situation among big enterprise companies isn’t looking good. - What’s up with the big guys: Slack wants to attract the business of big enterprise companies, but the share of large organizations that use or plan to use Slack next quarter has declined slightly to 33 percent while Teams has increased to 65 percent. - Why aren’t they using it? The general consensus among these big companies is that Slack may be a better product, but not so much better that it warrants paying for extra software on top of Microsoft Office. 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