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It's a bad month for layoffs in tech
The big tech layoffs are continuing apace, and it seems nobody is safe. Following this month's massive staff cuts at Twitter and Meta, the New York Times reports that Amazon is now planning to let go of approximately 10,000 employees. Happy holidays, I guess.
Amazon's upcoming job cuts will reportedly impact its corporate employees, specifically its retail division, human resources, and the team working on the company's devices (which includes voice assistant Alexa).
Considering that Amazon employs over 1.5 million people across the globe, 10,000 workers laid off may not seem like a significant percentage from the company's perspective. It amounts to about 0.7 percent of Amazon's employees, which is a considerably smaller relative reduction than Twitter's Elon Musk-induced layoffs that cut its workforce by around 50 percent.
A reduction in force, or perhaps they're making room for picking up some of the high performing Twitter talent who were let go? [hubie]
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday November 16 2022, @10:20PM
Laying off 0.7% of the workforce isn't something you bother the big man about. The New York Times is trying to bother him about it, but I still doubt that it's something he's aware of at any level of detail.
If you ran a company of 200 people, this would be like somebody in the mail room getting fired and that chick in marketing going part time after her newborn came.
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