Amazon will cut another 9,000 jobs bringing the total to 27,000 jobs culled so far as part of the 'tech wreck' sweeping the world.
The cuts will take place in coming weeks and are mainly concentrated in Amazon's web, HR and advertising team. Staff who look after Amazon's foray into Twitch livestreaming are also set to be impacted.
CEO Andy Jassy said the decision was made to ensure the company remained "streamlined" as tough market conditions bite across the globe.
Six days ago, another massive tech giant, Facebook owner Meta, also announced mass job redundancies. Meta chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg told employees that his company was laying off another 10,000 employees and closing about 5000 additional open roles in its own second major round of job cuts.
Closer to home, Australia has also been pummelled by the tough economic conditions. Earlier this month, ASX-listed software firm Xero announced that it was going to reduce its headcount by 700 to 800 roles, which was a 15 per cent cut to the overall workforce. A few days earlier, software giant Atlassian slashed 500 roles, which represents five per cent of its total global workforce. Another software development company, Kinde, laid off 28.5 per cent of staff at the end of last month.
I would certainly feel 'streamlined' or perhaps in free fall if I no longer had a job.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 22, @07:52AM (3 children)
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/amazon-layoffs-will-shut-down-camera-review-site-dpreview-com-after-25-years/?comments=1&comments-page=1 [arstechnica.com]
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 22, @10:49AM
Looks like there are backups for a lot of the old content, for example,
https://web.archive.org/web/20230321212413/https://www.dpreview.com/ [archive.org]
Archive.org shows 378,000+ pages saved since 1999. Now is the time to submit your favorite pages for archiving!
(Score: 2) by bart9h on Wednesday March 22, @04:18PM
/r/DataHoarder [reddit.com] is already on to it.
(Score: 2) by EvilSS on Wednesday March 22, @07:16PM
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Thexalon on Wednesday March 22, @11:55AM
The companies engaged in massive layoffs mostly (with the main exception of Twitter) aren't broke, and could totally afford to keep the people they're laying off. So why are they doing it?
I think it comes down to this: Twitter cut 3/4 of its staff, and replaced coddling techies with abusing them, and didn't completely collapse. Ergo, other companies must be able to fire a large percentage of their techies and not have any problems. And as an added bonus, they'll now have a large population of smart but unemployed techies who will be willing to work for far less than they're getting now because it's preferable to starving or being deported, so now you start treating the employees who you still have left that are making good money really badly, and eventually they quit and get replaced with somebody making 40-50% of what the person they're replacing made. Then they can take that reduced payroll costs and give it to shareholders.
Or, to summarize, there's been an industry-wide shift to replace the "carrot" incentive of good pay and benefits and nice offices with the "stick" incentive of keeping a roof over one's head and still in the country you want to work in. I hope those of us in the tech biz saved their pennies, you'll need them.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by ilsa on Wednesday March 22, @02:29PM (3 children)
There is literally no freaking tech crisis. All of these companies are practically printing money. (I don't count Twitter as their problems are self-inflicted stupidity) This is nothing but a bunch of rich assholes who decided now is a great time to fuck over the tech people because they were starting to get too uppity and demanding basic rights.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 22, @04:46PM (2 children)
You mean we're all just pawns in the Soros-Koch-Murdoch games? Noooooooooooo!!!!!!!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 22, @05:13PM (1 child)
Speak for yourself, I've been working for my own company for years.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday March 23, @03:37AM
So maybe you have been running your own business, but:
- How many regular clients could you afford to lose and still have a business?
- Are there any third-party companies which, if they went under, would leave your business scrambling?
- Are there any third-party companies who take a cut of all of your sales?
- Do you have investors that have some significant sway over how you conduct your business?
My experience is that a lot of people who think of themselves as independent business owners aren't all that independent, but to a large degree are underpaid contractors. And I say that as someone who was one of those for many years.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Wednesday March 22, @09:19PM
> are mainly concentrated in Amazon's web, HR and advertising team. Staff who look after Amazon's foray into Twitch livestreaming
Doesn't sounds like they are cutting core competence, more like shedding the dead weight? I understand it will suck for these affected people, but the good news is that Amazon are always looking for people to put things into boxes in their warehouses? Right? Actual manual work tho so it might not be suitable for the people being made redundant.