Amazon is still cutting its workforce. After a first social plan announced last November that affected 10,000 employees, the group revised this figure upwards last January to 18,000. There are now 9,000 more people who will be affected. That’s a total of 27,000 employees since last November.
This was announced on Monday by the CEO of the US giant Andy Jassy in a note to the staff released by the US media.
Much of these job cuts will affect AWS’s cloud division, which is the largest contributor to group profits. But other services will be affected, such as human resources, advertising, but also the live video subsidiary Twitch.
Faced like most technology companies with a slowdown in growth, Amazon seeks to rationalize costs and its PDD points in its note to “the uncertainty that exists in the near future.”
“The overarching principle of our annual planning this year was to be more efficient and to do it in a way that allows us to continue to invest vigorously in key long-term customer experiences that we believe can significantly improve lives for customers and Amazon as a whole. . Andy Jassy said.
Over the past year, layoffs have multiplied in the US tech sector. To date, 503 companies have announced social plans in the sector for a total of 139,000 layoffs since the beginning of the year, according to the Layoffs.fyi site.
Source: BFM TV
