Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers, including some at AWS

Amazon
will
fire
about
9,000
more
workers
from
several
business
units,
including
AWS,
in
the
coming
weeks,
according
to
a
statement
released
today
by
company
CEO
Andy
Jassy.

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Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers, including some at AWS

Amazon
will
fire
about
9,000
more
workers
from
several
business
units,
including
AWS,
in
the
coming
weeks,
according
to
a
statement
released
today
by
company
CEO
Andy
Jassy.
The
announcement
comes
two
months
after

Amazon
unveiled
plans
to
lay
off
18,000
employees
.

In
his
official
statement,
Jassy
said
that
most
of
the
layoffs
in
this
second
round
will
affect
employees
at
AWS,
PXT
(People
Experience
and
Technology,
the
company’s
HR
arm),
Advertising,
and
Twitch,
the
popular
livestreaming
service
purchased
by
Amazon
in
2014
for
nearly
$1
billion.

Jassy
also
wrote
that
the
company
would
provide
severance
pay,
transitional
health
insurance
and
assistance
with
job
placement.

“Some
may
ask
why
we
didn’t
announce
these
role
reductions
with
the
ones
we
announced
a
couple
months
ago,”
he
wrote.
“The
short
answer
is
that
not
all
of
the
teams
were
done
with
their
analyses
in
the
late
fall;
and
rather
than
rush
through
these
assessments
without
the
appropriate
diligence,
we
chose
to
share
these
decisions
as
we’ve
made
them
so
people
had
the
information
as
soon
as
possible.”

Amazon
is
far
from
the
only
tech
company
to
make
major
staffing
cuts
in
recent
months

just
this
month,

Meta
announced
that
it
would
fire
10,000

employees,
over
and
above
the
11,000
job
cuts
that
it
announced
four
months
ago.

Twitter’s
latest
round
of
layoffs
,
which
became
public
in
late
February,
has
seen
the
social
media
firm
reduced
to
around
2,000
employees,
sharply
down
from
7,500
immediately
before
Elon
Musk’s
controversial
takeover.

After
a
year
in
which
technology
companies
announced
massive
layoffs,

tech
sector
layoffs
in
2023

are
looking
no
different

in
fact,
the
year
is
starting
off
worse
than
2022.
Facing
an
uncertain
global
economy,
technology
companies
have
accelerated
the
pace
of
layoffs
in
2023,
after
sweeping
job
cuts
rocked
the
industry
last
year.
In
all,
about
162,000
tech
workers
have
lost
their
jobs
this
year,

according
to
layoff
tracker
TrueUp.

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