Well, it’s official.
Today was certainly not a prime day for workers as the e-tailer turned everything-tailer continued laying off employees to the tune of 10,000 jobs.
Though huge, that number represents only about 3% of the company’s estimated 1.5 million full- and part-time workers worldwide. Cuts are planned for the behemoth’s devices, retail and human resources sectors.
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The Amazon cuts also aren’t the largest in layoff headlines for tech this year. That nefarious award goes to , which earlier this month announced plans to lay off 11,000 workers. At the time, Meta CEO to over-hiring during the pandemic. Yeah, no kidding.
As , Amazon’s PR team likely scrambled to also heavily promote Amazon CEO ’ “exclusive� sit-down interview with in which he discussed hismost of his $122 billion fortune during his lifetime.
Isn’t that nice.
Also on Tuesday, Amazon announced the launch of its new virtual clinic — all this on the heels of Bezos’ tweet last month that followers “batten down the hatches.�
See, Amazon wants to help us.
The competing headlines amounted to good vs. bad news whiplash for industry watchers and we can only imagine the conversations among laid-off Amazon workers at happy hour tonight.
Illustration: Dom Guzman
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