Amazon plans to remove 9000 extra jobs within the subsequent few weeks, CEO Andy Jassy has instructed employees in a memo.
The job cuts would mark the second largest spherical of lay-offs within the firm’s historical past, including to the 18,000 workers the corporate mentioned it might lay off in January.
In the memo, Jassy mentioned the second part of the corporate’s annual planning course of accomplished this month and led to the extra job cuts.
He mentioned Amazon will nonetheless rent in some strategic areas.
“Some may ask why we didn’t announce these role reductions with the ones we announced a couple months ago. The short answer is that not all of the teams were done with their analyses in the late fall (autumn); 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,” Jassy mentioned.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
