After cutting tens of thousands of jobs in less than a year, Amazon is scaling back its staffing levels even more.
In a memo to employees on March 20, CEO Andy Jassy said the e-commerce giant plans to “eliminate about 9,000 more positions in the next few weeks — mostly in AWS, PXT, Advertising, and Twitch.”
“Some may ask why we didn’t announce these role reductions with the [18,000] we announced a couple months ago,” Jassy said.
“The short answer is that not all of the teams were done with their [operational] analyses in the late fall; and rather than rush through these assessments without the appropriate diligence, we chose to share these decisions as we’ve made them so people had the information as soon as possible.”
He added that the affected teams are still finalizing which roles will be impacted.
“Once those decisions have been made (our goal is to have this complete by mid to late April), we will communicate with the impacted employees (or where applicable in Europe, with employee representative bodies).”
The latest round of job cuts comes roughly a month after the company announced that most of its employees will be required to spend at least three days a week at their respective offices beginning on May 1.
According to LinkedIn, Amazon employs a total workforce of more than 818,000 people.
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