Amazon will remove others nine thousand jobs in the coming weeks, the CEO announced Monday Andy Jassy in a memo to staff.
It would be the second largest round of layoffs in company history, on top of the 18 thousand announced in January.
In the message, Jassy indicated that the dThe decision was made after the second phase of the company’s annual planning process. which ended this month. He added that Amazon will continue to hire in some strategic areas.
“Some will ask why we didn’t announce these cuts when we announced the others a couple of months ago. The short answer is that not all teams had finished their analyzes by late fall; and instead of making these assessments hastily without due care, we decided to share these decisions as soon as they were made so that people have the information as quickly as possible,” Jassy said.