This workforce reduction, impacting less than 1,000 employees, is part of CEO Andy Jassy’s larger plan to cut costs and reduce corporate bureaucracy. Amazon has carried out a fresh round of layoffs affecting employees in India and other countries.
Because the company overhired during the pandemic, jeff Bezos, the founder and executive chairman of Amazon, said in a Fox News interview aired Wednesday, that continued job cuts have been necessary.
“People were staying home and they were ordering, and it was an incredible, stressful period for us, by the way,” he said when asked about the 30,000 jobs lost in the previous round.
As part of these changes, we’ve made the difficult decision to eliminate a small number of roles, and we’re committed to supporting affected employees through their transition. A person familiar with the matter told Business Insider that less than 1,000 employees have been affected by the workforce reduction. Because we believe this structure will better enable us to deliver on our priorities, “We’ve adjusted parts of our Stores business.
“We’re always looking at our team structures to ensure we’re best set up to move fast as we innovate for customers,” the spokesperson said.
