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.Įarlier this month, the company said it would pause construction on its headquarters building in northern Virginia, though the first phase of that project will open this June with 8,000 employees. Twitch, the gaming platform Amazon owns, will also see some layoffs as well as Amazon’s PXT organizations, which handle human resources and other functions. The job cuts announced Monday will hit profitable areas for the company including its cloud computing unit AWS and its burgeoning advertising business. 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,” Jassy said. “Some may ask why we didn’t announce these role reductions with the ones we announced a couple months ago. He said Amazon will still hire in some strategic areas. In the memo, Jassy said the second phase of the company’s annual planning process completed this month led to the additional job cuts. READ MORE: Amid layoffs, Amazon pauses construction on second headquarters in Virginia Tech companies have announced tens of thousands of job cuts this year. The company’s workforce doubled during the pandemic, however, in the midst of a hiring surge across almost the entire tech sector. 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. NEW YORK (AP) - Amazon plans to eliminate 9,000 more jobs in the next few weeks, CEO Andy Jassy said in a memo to staff on Monday.
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