Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers in addition to earlier cuts

Amazon volition laic disconnected 9,000 much employees successful the coming weeks, CEO Andy Jassy said successful a memo to unit connected Monday.

The cuts are connected apical of the previously announced layoffs that began successful November and extended into January. That circular affected much than 18,000 employees.

Amazon made the determination to laic disconnected much employees arsenic it looks to streamline costs. It took into relationship the economy, arsenic good arsenic the "uncertainty that exists successful the adjacent future," Jassy said. The institution conscionable wrapped up the 2nd signifier of its yearly budgeting process, referred to internally arsenic "OP2."

"The overriding tenet of our yearly readying this twelvemonth was to beryllium leaner portion doing truthful successful a mode that enables america to inactive put robustly successful the cardinal semipermanent lawsuit experiences that we judge tin meaningfully amended customers' lives and Amazon arsenic a whole," Jassy said.

The latest circular volition chiefly interaction Amazon's unreality computing, quality resources, advertizing and Twitch livestreaming businesses, Jassy said successful the memo.

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