The multinational that operates in the sector of e-commerce, cloud computing, streaming and artificial intelligence that is among the top five technology companies, Amazon, announced this Wednesday, the 4th, the dismissal of more than 18,000 employees, both in the United States and in Europe. This has been an action of large companies, but certainly the company of founder Jeff Bezos surprised with the amount. Check out the article and learn more about the mass layoffs at Amazon.
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The motivation for this, as justified by the company, is that quick hires were made to meet demand during the Covid-19 pandemic and also because the current economic context is uncertain. According to the CEO of the American group, Andy Jassy, in a statement to Amazon employees: “Among the reductions we made in November and the ones we share today, we plan to eliminate just over 18,000 posts”.
He goes on to say that the board of amazon is "deeply aware that these job cuts are hard on people and we don't take these decisions lightly", it goes on to say that: “We are working to support those affected and offer them packages that include compensation, temporary health insurance and outside help to find work".
This staff reduction is the most impactful made by Amazon since it was founded, on July 5, 1994, as well as being the largest recently announced headcount cut among the technology industry. american.
At the end of September last year, the group's employees totaled 1.54 million distributed around the world. This amount does not include those seasonal employees, who were only hired for periods with greater demand, such as the end of the year, for example.
As early as November 2022, the company announced that it intended to reduce approximately 10,000 employees from its staff. However, now, with this sudden warning, there will be more than 18 thousand. The unexpected announcement was made in such a way, according to Jassy, because one of the employees ended up leaking the information externally.
Finally, the CEO of the American group points out that "Amazon has withstood the uncertain and difficult economic situation in the past and we will continue to do so".
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