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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 Thexalon on Thursday November 17 2022, @11:51PM
No, it's a purge of people who wanted to get up, go to work, arrive between 8 and 9 AM, work through until about 5 PM, and go home again. Which are going to be people who are less likely to be there due to an ideological axe to grind, and more likely to be there for a paycheck.
Also, working long hours has been shown in many many studies to be actually detrimental to work performance after about 2 weeks of doing it.
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