New York (EFE).- The Amazon company announced on Monday to its employees a new round of layoffs that will affect 9,000 employees “in the coming weeks.”
These cuts come on top of Amazon’s previously announced layoffs that began last November and ran through this January, laying off more than 18,000 employees across the hardware and services, human resources and retail teams.
“It was a difficult decision, but we believe it is the best thing for the company in the long term,” CEO Andy Jassy noted Monday in a message that was first shared with his employees and then with the rest of the world in a statement. .
Jassy indicated that the areas that this new cut will affect will be: Amazon Web Services (AWS), People Experience and Technology Solutions (PXT), the advertising department and its Twitch streaming channel.
“Given the economic uncertainty in which we live and the uncertainty that exists in the near future, we have chosen to be more efficient in our costs and personnel,” Jassy explained by way of justification for this decision.
Amazon, the second company with the largest number of employees in the United States after Walmart stores, had 1,540,000 workers in 2022, a figure 4.7% less than that of 2021.
Layoffs in addition to those announced by Meta
Less than a week ago, the technology company Meta – owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp – announced that it is going to cut another 10,000 jobs in the coming months and abandon plans to fill some 5,000 vacancies that it had open.
The new layoffs come after last November Meta announced the departure of some 11,000 workers, around 13% of its workforce, with the aim of reducing costs.
“This is going to be hard and there is no way to avoid it,” said the company’s top executive, Mark Zuckerberg, on March 14, when announcing the decision, which he justified as an attempt to make the company more efficient.
Zuckerberg, in a statement, explained that during the next two months the leaders of the different Meta businesses will announce restructuring plans in which low-priority projects will be canceled and hiring will be reduced.