Amazon layoffs expected to mount to 20,000, includes top managers: Report
Contents News/Article Date: 6th December 2022
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Type: Newspaper report
Pertains to: employers and employees and in particular IT / ITeS employees
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Subject: Amazon layoffs expected to mount to 20,000, includes top managers: Report
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Amazon layoffs expected to mount to 20,000, includes top managers: Report
Twenty thousand employees are the equivalent of about 6 percent of corporate staff, and about 1.3 percent of Amazon’s total 1.5 million-strong workforce including global distribution centre and hourly workers.
Amazon plans to lay off as many as 20,000 employees in the coming months, including distribution centre workers, technology staff and corporate executives as the retail and cloud computing giant retrenches after going on a hiring spree during the pandemic, according to a report by Computerworld.
Amazon employees are ranked from level 1 to level 7, and staff at all levels will likely be affected, according to sources with direct knowledge of the matter, who spoke with Computerworld
NYT first reported in mid-November that Amazon would enact mass layoffs, and as many as 10,000 people would be sacked.
Company managers over the last few days, however, have been told that they should try to identify work performance problems among employees, as part of an effort to lay off about 20,000 people, according to the report.
Twenty thousand employees are the equivalent of about 6 percent of corporate staff, and about 1.3 percent of Amazon’s total 1.5 million-strong workforce including global distribution centre and hourly workers.
Corporate staff have been told that employees will receive a 24-hour notice and severance pay, in accordance with their company contracts, the report added. “There is a sense of fear among employees in the company as the news has come out,” one of the sources told Computerworld, who was informed directly about the layoff effort.
The layoffs would be the largest staff reduction in the company’s history.
