At Amazon, 9,000 employees are said to lose their jobs.
Company boss Andy Jassy announced the second wave of job cuts on Monday in an email to employees, as reported by broadcaster CNBC and financial service Bloomberg, among others. At the beginning of the year, the world’s largest online retailer had already cut 18,000 of its more than 1.5 million jobs at the time. According to media reports, Jassy wrote that this time employees of the cloud division AWS and the live streaming service Twitch should be affected.
The tech giants had also significantly expanded their workforces with the business upswing in the corona pandemic. At Amazon, for example, the number of full-time and part-time employees doubled from 800,000 at the end of 2019 to more than 1.6 million at the end of 2021. Last week, the Facebook group Meta was the first of the online giants to initiate a second round of job cuts. After 11,000 jobs in November, around 10,000 more jobs are now to be cut and 5,000 vacancies not to be filled. (dpa)