Amazon will cut 27,000 jobs in 2023, CEO announces

New layoff plan at Amazon. The general manager of the firm, Andy Jassy, ​​announced on Monday March 20, in a letter to the group’s teams, that 9,000 jobs will be cut. These cuts are in addition to the 18,000 job cuts already announced in January. “Given the economic uncertainty and the lack of visibility on the near future, we have decided to reduce our costs and our workforce”explained the chief executive, who took over from founder Jeff Bezos in July 2021.

Most of these new job cuts concern the remote computing activity (cloud) Amazon Web Services (AWS), the PXT department dedicated to human resources management, the staff dedicated to advertising, as well as the platform Twitch video, Andy Jassy clarified.

As for the layoffs announced in early January, they represent around 1.7% of the workforce of Amazon, which had 1.54 million employees worldwide at the end of 2022. It must be said that the Seattle giant (United States) recorded in the fourth quarter of 2022 a 98% drop in net profit, which came out well below what analysts expected.