Amazon CEO Andy Jassy dropped a bomb in a memo to staff today, announcing that a whopping 9,000 employees will get the boot in the coming weeks. This comes after the online retail giant already showed over 18,000 employees the door in its previous round of layoffs between November and January, affecting workers in retail, devices, recruiting, and human resources groups.
Jassy and other Amazon top brass are tightening their belts to cut costs, keeping an eye on the shaky Biden economy and the “uncertainty that exists in the near future.”
Jassy explained, “The overriding tenet of our annual planning this year was to be leaner while doing so in a way that enables us to still invest robustly in the key long-term customer experiences that we believe can meaningfully improve customers’ lives and Amazon as a whole.” This time around, Amazon’s cloud computing, human resources, advertising, and Twitch livestreaming businesses […]
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