BEIJING, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) According to the "Wall Street Journal" citing people familiar with the matter, the total number of layoffs at Amazon may exceed 18,000.
The figure is higher than the company originally planned and would be the largest layoff disclosed by a major technology company to date.
According to reports, the Seattle-based company said in November 2022 that it would start laying off employees in the enterprise, mainly involving equipment business, recruitment and retail business.
At the time, the company expected the total number of layoffs to be about 10,000, but a person familiar with the matter said that number could change.
The company began cutting thousands of those jobs last year.
The next cuts, which will bring the total to more than 18,000 jobs, will be completed in the coming weeks, some of the people said.
As of September 2022, the total number of Amazon employees is 1.5 million, a large number of whom work in warehouses.
The layoffs are primarily aimed at Amazon's corporate workers, the people said.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sent a letter to all employees on the 4th, which talked about layoffs.
Jassy said, "Amazon has experienced uncertain and difficult times in the past, and we will continue (layoffs)." Jassy added that most of the layoffs occurred in Amazon's retail and recruiting areas and will be notified later this month. affected employees.
As the U.S. economy falters, many tech companies are laying off workers.
According to the latest statistics from the Layoffs.fyi website, Amazon may lay off more than 18,000 employees in total, which will be the largest number of layoffs by a technology company in the past few months.
Earlier, Meta, the parent company of social platform Facebook, said it would lay off 11,000 employees, accounting for 13% of its total workforce.
Twitter announced layoffs of nearly half its workforce.