Amazon had laid off 18,000 employees out of its total work force in the last few months under the first round of Layoff. Now a list of 9,000 employees has been prepared for the second round of retrenchment.
A big news has come about the ongoing layoffs in the world amidst the growing threat of banking crisis and recession. Veteran e-commerce company Amazon (Amazon) has prepared for the second round of layoffs and has made a plan to evacuate thousands of employees in the next few weeks. On behalf of the company, CEO Andy Jassy has announced this layoff.
According to the PTI report, Amazon had laid off 18,000 employees out of its total work force in the last few months under the first round of Layoff . Now a list of 9,000 employees has been prepared for the second round of retrenchment. These employees may be shown the way out in the next few weeks. In a blog post by CEO Andy Jassy, it has been said that most of the people in the AWS, Advertising and Twitch sections will be affected in the company’s layoff plan.
CEO told the reason for the layoff
Amazon CEO said that in view of the uncertainty seen in the economy at present and in the near future, we have chosen the option to further streamline our costs and headcount. He further said in his post that the company has added a substantial amount of new employees over the years, but the uncertain economy has forced us to cut costs and manpower.
It is noteworthy
That during the first round of retrenchment in Amazon, it was also indicated by CEO Andy Jassy that such decisions can be taken further. He had said that right now the company is going through a very difficult phase and until the clouds of uncertainty in the business do not end, such tough steps can be taken even further and now by disclosing the plan to lay off 9000 employees, he said this. has also been confirmed.
Facebook also took a big decision.
Earlier recently, Facebook’s parent company Meta had once again announced big layoffs and said that the company would lay off more than 10,000 employees. Meta had fired more than 11,000 employees last year in November 2022 as well. Which was the biggest layoff since its inception. The information about the second round of layoffs was also given by the company through a blog post.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg had told that the company is also planning to close 5 thousand additional open roles, which will no longer be filled. He had said that we have taken a very difficult decision.
