9,000 Jobs will be cut by Amazon, Total 27,000 Layoffs

After Meta, 9,000 Jobs will be cut by Amazon, Total 27,000 Layoffs

By Setmynews.com Date 21/03/2023 By Setmynews.com Date 21/03/2023 SetMyNews.Com SetMyNews.Com Business and Money Business and Money

Tech company's Layoffs season continues for 2023. After the first round of 18,000 jobs cuts by tech giant company Amazon,

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On Monday, the CEO of Amazon Andy Jassy announced, that the company is ready to layoffs around 9,000 roles.

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These 9,000 layoffs would include roles from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Twitch, advertising, and HR departments.

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The CEO later said that we know this decision is a tough one but it was necessary for the long-term success of the company.

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It would be a total of 9% of Amazon's corporate workforce of 3,00,000 employees. With these laid-offs total layoffs for Amazon would be a total of 27,000.

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Amazon's CEO Andy Jassy said in a note that the layoff decision is driven by the uncertainty about the economy.

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2023 is going to be a tech layoff year for thousands of employees. Companies like Meta, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, Twitter, etc are performing layoffs.

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Meta in November 2022 had layoff its 11,000 employees. Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the second layoff on recent Thursday, that the company is ready for another 10,000 laid-offs.

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