Amazon will fire others 9,000 employees in the coming weeks that will be added to the cut of 18,000 jobs undertaken by the company founded by Jeff Bezos between the end of 2022 and the beginning of this year. This has been stated Andy Jassy, Amazon CEOin an internal memorandum to which the CNBC. With this new round of layoffs, Amazon already adds 36,000 casualties so far this year and it becomes the technological company with the most staff cuts.
The company’s decision to undertake new layoffs “it would seek to optimize costs in a context marked by the uncertainty that exists in the near future”. “As we just concluded the second phase of our operating plan (“OP2”) last week, I am writing to share that we intend to eliminate around 9,000 more positions in the coming weeks, primarily in AWS, PXT, Advertising and Twitch«has pointed out jassy in the document, regretting that it is “difficult decision” but “We believe it is the best for the company in the long term”.
“The overriding tenet of our annual planning this year was to be more agile while doing it in a way that allows us to continue to invest strongly in key customer experiences over the long term that we believe can significantly improve customers’ lives and from Amazon in general »has pointed out the CEO.
In this line, the top executive has recognized that for several years the majority of businesses in Amazon they have added a significant number of staff in response to developments in the company’s business and the economy in general. However, “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”has underlined jassy.
Although the company aims to operate more efficiently this 2023, jassy has indicated that it remains optimistic about the “bigger business” company, retail and Amazon Web Services (AWS), as well as other new divisions that continue to justify the investment. At the end of last year, Amazon also publicly reported that it had decided pause net hires for the next few months due to economic uncertainty.
Amazon returned to the red numbers at the end of 2022 after seven years of profitability with losses of 2,722 million dollars, the first year since 2015 in which it presented red numbers and after a 2021 in which it registered record profits of 33,364 million dollars. However, despite the losses, his income increased by 9% compared to the previous year, reaching 513,983 million dollars.