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It really feels like we are in the middle of a recession.
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These aren't "job losses", these are "firings". They aren't unfortunate accidents of external origin that happened to them, they are conscious internal decisions to let people go.
Is this their annual stack and cut?
Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected by this unfortunate corporate-involved job loss incident at this time.
> The company has more than 1.5 million employees across its warehouses and offices worldwide.

> This includes around 350,000 corporate workers, which include those in executive, managerial and sales roles, according to figures that Amazon submitted to the US government last year.

So roughly 4% of jobs in Amazon's corporate division disappeared. Not to downplay that the world/economy is in a bad state, but I don't think this is very catastrophic.

Once a company moves on to recurring, large-scale layoffs justified by vague corporate Mumbo-Jumbo, I think it is safe to assume it is a "day 2" company.
Is there any non-day 2 company in this day and age? Seems like everyone's laying off en masse. Even the job reports can't hide it.

If you're not working in nursing the flux of retired Baby boomers you're either already rich or on unsteady ground.

Economy in bad shape + AI bubble + tons of fake jobs = prepare for this to be much more common in the next coming years.
there is little mourning for people who didn't get hired at all in the first place.
From the article, Amazon has 1.5 million employees across offices and warehouses. With about 350,000 corporate employees in executive, managerial and sales.

So that’s about 4% of the non-warehouse staff. What’s their normal staff turnover rate per year?

I wonder if it’s another staff reduction (cos we over hired and want to remove people who didn’t impress) under the cover of improving business productivity using AI

Hat tip to raziel2p who was going down the same in thier comment

> This includes around 350,000 corporate workers, which include those in executive, managerial and sales roles, according to figures, external that Amazon submitted to the US government last year.

I’m fairly ignorant to these things, but why does Amazon need 350k corporate employees?

People losing jobs always sucks, but I can’t help but think that a company of this size inevitably has bloat that they do not need.

At this point it really does feel like a corporate welfare program.

This is a reflection of 1) compensation has come down since the ZIRP era at least in some roles and 2) it's a hirer's market.

This means companies see an opportunity to bring compensation down.

I wish employees would instead have an opportunity to sign up for lower salary. For whatever reason you just don't see that happening anywhere

Sharing the risk (and rewards) with the company is why we take 50% or more of our comp as RSUs instead of being paid in straight cash. This should already be factored in. If the company does bad, we should already be taking an (effective) pay cut.

Amazon's backloaded vesting is terrible (for both Amazon and Amazonians) for this exact reason.

everybody read 'bullshit jobs' and basically agreed

at first that just meant many of us adopted a middle-aged-coasting career strategy after covid and/or having kids

but now management is agreeing

Meanwhile new grads can't even start their careers to begin with and are left scambling to even take a step into adulthood. They missed the boar. kids aren't even on the horizon. What does that say?
Any word on what percentage hit AWS?
I’ve heard multiple numbers for this layoff from unofficial sources. Does anyone think Amazon was trying to identify a leak by letting internal parties know about the layoffs with slightly different details?
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-workfor...

By the way, could Amazon not even bother to proofread a mass layoff announcement? "We’re convicted that we need to be organized more leanly"

At least we know this was written by a human, because an LLM probably wouldn't make that mistake. Maybe they fired the proofreaders already.

Wasn't technology supposed to enable workers to do more, instead of doing the same with less?
Is this targeting mostly individual contributors? Or are Directors/VPs also getting cut just as equally?
You would think that a company that's making some 50 billion in profits every year would be able to find something useful to do for those 14k people.
Just imagine the productivity they could achieve if they kept those 14,000 and had them use AI, too! Productivity overload. Levels we have never seen.
does we live in era that side hustles is an necessity????
AWS outages will become the norm?
Yeah, finally 1-2 billion profit more on top of the 68 billion they already generate.