Amazon plan lay off approximately 10,000 workers starting this weekhas advanced The New York Times. This serious the largest cut in company history and would represent approximately 3% of the corporate employees of Amazon and less than 1% of its global workforce of more than 1.5 million.
As reflected by the aforementioned media, the layoffs will focus on devices area of the company, which includes the voice assistant business alexaas well as in the retail and human resources branches.
A few weeks ago, the company publicly reported that it had decided pause net hires for the next few months due to economic uncertainty. Nevertheless, Amazon it planned to replace workers who left on their own and expand workforces in certain key areas.
“We are facing an unusual macroeconomic environment and we want to balance our hiring and investments with an awareness of this economy. This is not the first time we have faced uncertain and challenging economic situations.”then assured Beth Galetti, Vice President of Amazon People Experience and Technology.
The American newspaper has highlighted that this cut comes in the middle of the holiday shopping seasonand is the result of an adjustment caused by the drift of the global economy and with the aim of reducing the business areas with excess personnel.
The layoffsin the case of occurring, would mean a new case of a technology company in the country reducing its workforce, after in recent weeks Elon Musk to kick out half of Twitter’s staff after buying the company or Goal (Facebook) decided to lay off 11,000 workers
Amazon closed the first nine months of the year with losses of 3,000 million dollars (2,900 million euros), compared to the profit of 19,041 million (18,408 million euros) for the period from January to September 2021. On its side, the turnover was 172,370 million (166,642 million euros), 1.2% more. Everything indicates that the end of the year will be particularly complex for the US company, since the sales projections for the last quarter of the year are not as expected. Amazon It expects revenues of up to 148,000 million dollars (142,185.5 million euros), well below the 156,000 million dollars (149,871.7 million euros) forecast by analysts.