In November 2022, news broke that Amazon was laying off 10,000 employees.
In a memo from CEO Andy Jassy published Thursday, Amazon announced it would “eliminate additional roles.” That means a total of over 18,000 employees have been laid off, with the majority of the affected roles being Amazon stores and his PXT (People, Experience, and Technology) employees.
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“This year’s review has been more difficult given the uncertain economic climate and rapid adoption over the past few years,” Jassy wrote. “In November, we communicated the difficult decision to cut a number of positions across our devices and books business, and also announced a voluntary layoff offer for some employees in our People, Experience and Technology (PXT) organization. We had not completed the annual planning process and expected further role reductions in early 2023.
“Today, I wanted to share the results of these further reviews, a difficult decision to remove additional roles.”
The past few months have been pretty bad for layoffs at big tech companies. Facebook’s parent company Meta announced in November that it would lay off 11,000 employees (about 13% of its workforce), while Elon Musk’s Twitter cut half of its workforce (about 3,750). announced that he would be fired. — before laying off thousands of contractors.
That was not all. Microsoft, Snap and Lyft are among many other tech companies to announce layoffs for 2022. The latest news from Amazon clearly shows that the pain isn’t over yet.
