New Delhi, 19/1: In January, Amazon confirmed the layoffs and their massive scale, saying that including the ones from last year, Wednesday’s round, and potential additional cuts in 2023, they would affect 18,000 employees overall. A memo from CEO Andy Jassy posted on the company’s website announced that impacted employees would be notified starting on the 18th.
Amazon’s layoffs are some of the largest in the industry in raw numbers, but the company is far from alone in cutting jobs. Major companies, like Meta, Snap, DoorDash, and of course, Microsoft, announce that they plan on eliminating hundreds or thousands of jobs throughout 2022 and 2023