Amazon plans to lay off nearly 10,000 employees, according to an announcement New York Times. The online sales platform will thus become the latest American technology giant to respond to the economic crisis with a large-scale social program. This would represent just 1% of payroll at the group, which had 1.6 million employees worldwide at the end of 2021.
A large proportion of these staff are seasonal workers who are recruited during periods of increased activity, especially for the end-of-year holidays. Agreed New York Times, the corresponding positions will be located in the Amazon Devices division (electronic devices equipped with the Alexa voice assistant or Kindle readers), the retail division, as well as in human resources. However, the distribution by countries is not mentioned.
The American daily also details that the total number of those fired is likely to change. If approved, it would be the largest layoff program in the company’s history. Amazon did not immediately respond when contacted by AFP. The company had already announced a freeze on hiring in its offices two weeks ago.
Last Wednesday, Facebook’s parent company, Meta, announced the loss of 11,000 jobs, or about 13% of its workforce. Two Silicon Valley companies, online payments services specialist Stripe and ride-hailing platform Lyft, also recently announced large-scale layoffs. Twitter, recently acquired by Elon Musk, has laid off about half of its 7,500 employees.
Source: Le Figaro
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