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Amazon to lay off another 9,000 employees

Amazon is reducing its staff by 9,000 over the coming weeks, eliminating positions in AWS, PXT, Advertising and Twitch.

CEO, Andy Jassy, said economic uncertainty played a role in the decision.

“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,” Jassy wrote in a memo posted on Amazon’s website.

The company previously laid off 18,000 employees in January. Jassy said the 9,000 layoffs weren’t announced alongside the last because some teams were not done analyzing their plans for the future.

More layoffs are possible, and some teams are still finalizing their decisions, the memo notes.

“Being 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–I believe the result of this year’s planning cycle is a plan that accomplishes this objective,” Jassy wrote.

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Amazon will continue laying off employees into the new year

Nov 22, 2019 Palo Alto / CA / USA – Close up of Amazon logo and Smile symbol at one of their corporate offices located in Silicon Valley, San Francisco bay area

Amazon will eliminate more roles in the new year, the company’s CEO told employees.

The company hasn’t finalized how many employees the layoffs will impact and what departments they come from, Andy Jassy said in a November 17th memo posted on the company’s website.

Layoffs in the devices and books departments have already occurred, with Canadians being among those impacted. The company confirms that future layoffs will impact its Stores and People, Experience, and Technology (PXT) organizations.

“This year’s review is more difficult due to the fact that the economy remains in a challenging spot and we’ve hired rapidly the last several years,” Jassy said.

Reports indicated the job cuts could impact as many as 10,000 employees.

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Amazon cuts employees working on Alexa, other devices and services

Amazon has begun to lay off employees with cuts in its devices and services organization.

In an internal letter posted to the company’s website, Dave Limp, senior vice president of devices and services, said impacted employees were notified of their dismissal on November 15th.

Limp blames the cuts on “an unusual and uncertain macroeconomic environment.”

Some of the impacted employees are based in Canada.

The same reasoning was used by various other tech giants for their layoffs. Meta began laying off 13 percent of its workforce last week. Shopify laid off 1,000 employees in July.

Limp’s letter says if the impacted employees can’t find another role in the company, they will be given separation payment and transitional benefits.

Despite the layoffs, the company says it will continue to invest in the department.

“I do want to emphasize that the devices & services organization remains an important area of investment for Amazon, and we will continue to invent on behalf of our customers,” Limp wrote.

It’s not clear how many employees have been impacted by the recent layoffs, as more cuts are expected soon. The company is expected to trim its workforce by 10,000 employees in its devices, retail, and human resources department.

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Amazon to lay off 10,000 employees, NYT reports

Amazon will implement the most significant job cuts in the company’s history.

According to the New York Times, the company will lay off as many as 10,000 employees, possibly beginning this week. However, that figure could fluctuate, employees familiar with the matter anonymously told the publication.

The employees work on Amazon’s devices, including Alexa, retail, and human resources.

The news comes just around the holiday season, a significant time for Amazon, which recently released some early Black Friday deals.

Amazon isn’t the only tech company to issue layoffs. Last week, Meta announced its most extensive layoffs, citing a changing landscape. More recently, contracted Twitter employees around the world, many of which were responsible for content moderation were let go.

Amazon didn’t confirm the news.

Source: New York Times