San Francisco: After Twitter and Meta, now Amazon has reportedly started the process of layoffs across the company this week.
Hardware Chief of the company, Dave Limp in a memo to the workers wrote, “After a deep set of reviews, we recently decided to consolidate some teams and programs. One of the consequences of these decisions is that some roles will no longer be required.”
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He added, “It pains me to have to deliver this news as we know we will lose talented Amazonians from the Devices & Services org as a result.”
The company while already notifying the employees to be laid off, said that it would also work closely with each of them as well as help them find “new roles”.
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As per reports, the layoff will impact approximately 10,000 people in corporate and technology roles.
The report stated that the figure is around 3 per cent of the company’s total corporate workforce and is one of the largest in the history of the company.