Amazon joins the Google, Meta and Twitter crises and will lay off 9 thousand employees

The final months of 2022 and the beginning of the present 2023 have not been the best at all in much of the technological business world and the financial crises of renowned companies such as Google, Meta and Twitter, are now joined by Amazon, who through its boss, Andy Jassy, ​​confirmed that the second phase of cost cuts and staff reduction will begin soon.

9 thousand layoffs

Jassy confirmed this Tuesday, March 21, that in the next few days nine thousand people will unfortunately have to leave their jobs and will no longer remain on Amazon’s payroll, as a consequence of the serious financial problems that the American trading corporation is going through. electronic and computer services.

Another of the worrying points expressed by the aforementioned executive is that the reduction in personnel will not stop since it is estimated that there will be more measures in that direction until the end of April. So that there is no doubt, Amazon itself confirmed the veracity of the information to the Engadget site, after the letter was initially leaked in a CNBC report.

The layoffs will come at the advertising and cloud computing divisions, as well as at Twitch, the streaming platform he owns. For his part, Andy Jassy promised severance pay, health coverage for workers separated from the company during the transition, and collaboration in finding a new job.

This will be the second phase of an “operational planning” to cut expenses, after the first, a round of layoffs in November 2022. In January, the company announced that it would eliminate 18,000 positions, a move that materialized mostly in the areas of commerce retail. In addition, last year the firm closed some of its physical stores and lowered the blinds of certain commercial units.