Last November he'd said there were eliminations coming and a media report at the time put the expected number of layoffs at closer to 10,000. He said the layoffs will mostly hit employees in its cloud platform, people's experience department that works with employees, advertising, and the Twitch video service.Įarlier this year, Jassy announced the company would lay off 18,000 workers. "This was a difficult decision, but one that we think is best for the company long term," Jassy wrote in the memo. The layoffs will happen "in the next few weeks," according to CEO Andy Jassy, who announced the cuts in a memo shared with staff and uploaded in a blog post on Monday. Amazon is cutting another 9,000 workers, adding to the massive downsizing happening across an embattled tech sector that is uncertain about the economic future.
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