- Amazon is laying off another 9,000 employees.
- That’s on the top of the 18,000 job cuts announced earlier this year.
- CEO Andy Jassy said the additional cuts weren’t announced sooner because some teams hadn’t finished their cost-cutting analysis.
Amazon is laying off an additional 9,000 employees, the e-commerce giant’s CEO Andy Jassy said Monday.
The layoffs will come on top of the cuts to 18,000 positions that the company disclosed in January.
“Some may ask why we didn’t announce these role reductions with the ones we announced a couple months ago,” Jassy wrote in a memo to staff. “The short answer is that not all of the teams were done with their 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. The same is true for this note as the impacted teams are not yet finished making final decisions on precisely which roles will be impacted.”
This is a developing story…
