Amazon layoffs increase from 10,000 to 18,000

According to the Wall Street Journal, people familiar with the matter said that Amazon's total number of employees has increased from the original plan of 10,000 to more than 18,000, indicating that the recession of technology companies is deepening.

Amazon said in November last year that it would cut manpower from office workers. At that time, the total number of employees was estimated to be about 10,000. The layoffs were mainly concentrated in the equipment business, recruitment and retail business. A spokesman has said Amazon employs about 350,000 corporate employees worldwide.

But people familiar with the matter now reveal that the number may change, and the total number of employees may exceed 18,000, which will be completed in the next few weeks.

Prior to November, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy (Andy Jassy) talked about the company's large-scale layoffs in a memo to employees, saying that layoffs will continue until 2023, because Amazon is formulating an annual operating plan, the company Leadership is still determining whether further layoffs are necessary.

Amazon is one of the biggest beneficiaries of the epidemic. Online shopping, fresh food business and cloud computing have all seen high demand. In order to keep up with the demand, Amazon has doubled its logistics network and added hundreds of thousands of employees. . However, as the epidemic dividend subsided and consumers gradually returned to physical stores, Amazon also began to launch a series of cost-cutting measures, including closing physical stores and Amazon Care and other businesses, and then fully freezing manpower and announcing large-scale layoffs.