Amazon cuts 9,000 more jobs, bringing 2023 total to 27,000
Associated PressNEW YORK — Amazon plans to eliminate 9,000 more jobs in the next few weeks, CEO Andy Jassy said in a memo to staff on Monday. The job cuts would mark the second largest round of layoffs in the company’s history, adding to the 18,000 employees the tech giant said it would lay off in January. In the memo, Jassy said the second phase of the company’s annual planning process completed this month led to the additional job cuts. The job cuts announced Monday will hit profitable areas for the company including its cloud computing unit AWS and its burgeoning advertising business. Twitch, the gaming platform Amazon owns, will https://apnews.com/video/putin-politics-russia-government-accidents-xi-jinping-7d12750354af4852a1ac186138dbc20c Prior layoffs had also hit PXT, the company’s stores division, which encompasses its e-commerce business as well as company’s brick-and-mortar stores such as Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go, and other departments such as the one that runs the virtual assistant Alexa.