Amazon layoffs

Amazon will be eliminating roles in its cloud computing unit, human resources division, advertising and Twitch, CEO Andy Jassy said Monday.

[Tracking tech layoffs: Why companies like Amazon and Meta cut jobs in 2022](https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2023/01/18/tech-layoffs-2023/11069223002/) [Massive tech company layoffs look ugly. [burst of hiring sprees](https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/economy/2023/02/07/tech-layoffs-2023-google-amazon/11135692002/) in the early days of the pandemic, rising interest rates have pushed a number of tech giants to trim staff. [according to Layoffs.fyi](https://layoffs.fyi/), a website that has been tracking tech layoffs [since March 2020. ](https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2023/01/18/tech-layoffs-2023/11069223002/) “This was a difficult decision, but one that we think is best for the company long term,” Jassy shared in his note. when you announce layoffs via email](https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2023/02/27/amazon-google-layoffs-workers-email-insulting/11332289002/) But it may not be as bad as you think.](https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/economy/2023/02/07/tech-layoffs-2023-google-amazon/11135692002/) [Layoffs, recession fears spur some companies to hire more gig economy workers](https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/03/01/layoffs-recession-businesses-hiring-freelancers-gig-workers/11369050002/) [Layoffs in a likely recession this year could be determined by software programs](https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/01/23/layoffs-2023-recession-software-programs/11086842002/) [More Meta layoffs: Facebook, Instagram parent company to cut another 10,000 workers](https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/03/14/meta-layoffs-employees-mark-zuckerberg/11469847002/) [Bailey Schulz](https://www.usatoday.com/staff/5190697001/bailey-schulz/) on Twitter [@bailey_schulz](https://twitter.com/bailey_schulz?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) and subscribe to our [free Daily Money newsletter here](https://profile.usatoday.com/newsletters/the-daily-money/) for personal finance tips and business news every Monday through Friday. [eliminated about 18,000 positions](https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/01/18/amazon-layoffs-18000-employees/11076820002/). [on Monday](https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/update-from-ceo-andy-jassy-on-amazons-operating-plan-and-additional-role-eliminations) [ announced](https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/update-from-ceo-andy-jassy-on-amazons-operating-plan-and-additional-role-eliminations) plans to cut another 9,000 positions, its [second round of mass layoffs](https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/01/18/amazon-layoffs-18000-employees/11076820002/) in recent months. [Facebook parent company Meta](https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/03/14/meta-layoffs-employees-mark-zuckerberg/11469847002/) earlier this month announced plans to lay off another 10,000 workers after cutting 11,000 employees in 2022, and [Google ](https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/01/20/google-layoffs-jobs-employees-cut/11088409002/)in January said it would be eliminating roughly 12,000 jobs.

The cuts follow a round of layoffs announced several months ago that affected more than 18000 jobs.

Jassy said that management had not yet determined the workers who would be laid off, but that it expected to do so by mid to late April. [put a priority on some projects](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/technology/tech-big-bets-layoffs.html) that lacked obvious ways to become profitable. In the uncertain economy, “user and revenue growth has not kept pace with our expectations,” Dan Clancy, Twitch’s chief executive, said in a blog post. He said the company could still pursue some “limited hiring” in strategic areas. The tech industry is undergoing its largest contraction since the dot-com bust of the early 2000s. But to older employees who experienced the dot-com bust, it has hardly been a shock. Twitch, the livestreaming site popular with video gamers that Amazon bought in 2014, said it was laying off more than 400 people, about 22 percent of its total staff. Human resources employees — recruiters in particular — were affected as well. Those two segments of the business are much higher-margin operations than Amazon’s core retail business, according to financial analysts and filings. [eye-opening to young workers](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/technology/tech-layoffs-millennials-gen-x.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-tech-layoffs&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc). [to its workers](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/13/technology/salesforce-marc-benioff-pressure.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-tech-layoffs&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc). [Alphabet](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/business/google-alphabet-layoffs.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-tech-layoffs&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc), [Microsoft](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/business/microsoft-layoffs.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-tech-layoffs&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc), [Zoom](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/business/zoom-layoffs.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-tech-layoffs&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc)and [Meta](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/technology/meta-facebook-layoffs.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-tech-layoffs&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc)are among the tech giants that have cut jobs amid [concerns about an economic slowdown](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/25/briefing/tech-layoffs-economy.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-tech-layoffs&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc).

Amazon is cutting 9000 more jobs, CEO Andy Jassy announced Monday in a memo to staff.

[rapidly grew its headcount ](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/22/tech/big-tech-pandemic-hiring-layoffs)during the early days of the pandemic. “Like many companies, our business has been impacted by the current macroeconomic environment, and user and revenue growth has not kept pace with our expectations,” Clancy wrote. “Some may ask why we didn’t announce these role reductions with the ones we announced a couple months ago,” Jassy added.

Amazon will lay off 9000 more employees, CEO Andy Jassy said in a memo to staff Monday.

To those ultimately impacted by these reductions, I want to thank you for the work you have done on behalf of customers and the company. I remain very optimistic about the future and the myriad of opportunities we have, both in our largest businesses, Stores and AWS, and our newer customer experiences and businesses in which we're investing. This initially led us to eliminate 18,000 positions (which we shared in January); and, as we completed the second phase of our planning this month, it led us to these additional 9,000 role reductions (though you will see limited hiring in some of our businesses in strategic areas where we've prioritized allocating more resources). The overriding tenet of our annual planning this year was to be leaner while doing so in a way that enables us to still invest robustly in the key long-term customer experiences that we believe can meaningfully improve customers' lives and Amazon as a whole. However, given the uncertain economy in which we reside, and the uncertainty that exists in the near future, we have chosen to be more streamlined in our costs and headcount. The company just wrapped up the second phase of its annual budgeting process, referred to internally as "OP2."

Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Salesforce and Disney have all slashed staff this year, citing cloudy economic forecasts.

The biggest came from Facebook and Instagram parent company [Meta](https://about.fb.com/news/2022/11/mark-zuckerberg-layoff-message-to-employees/), which laid off roughly 11,000 employees in November. announced plans to lay off 25% of its workforce (950 employees) in a company Total employment in the U.S increased by 517,000 positions in January, nearly tripling economists’ expectations, as industries such as construction, hospitality and healthcare bring in new workers despite recent cuts primarily in the tech industry. Publishing giant HarperCollins announced it would slash 5% of its staff in the U.S. and Australia, plans to slash its workforce by 5% this year (roughly 1,250 employees), the advisory business, who said the cuts are intended to align its workforce with “current and anticipated market demand”—making it the first of the so-called Big Four accounting firms to conduct a major round of layoffs amid growing recession fears in recent months. The German enterprise software firm—whose U.S. [CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/11/directv-lays-off-staffers-as-cord-cutting-accelerates-.html), as the company struggles with an increase in the cost to “secure and distribute programming,” and after the company lost nearly 3% of its subscribers (400,000) in the third quarter of 2022, [according to](https://www.leichtmanresearch.com/major-pay-tv-providers-lost-about-785000-subscribers-in-3q-2022/) the Leichtman Research Group. [CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/23/crypto-exchange-gemini-lays-off-10percent-of-workforce-.html) and [The Information](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/gemini-is-laying-off-10-of-staff-marking-latest-[%E2%80%A6]n=article_notification&utm_content=article-9630&rc=tppl7c?irclickid=w5oS%3At3NCxyNT3rSCjyT1QUUUkA1itzGmyXwT00&irgwc=1&utm_source=affiliate&utm_medium=cpa&utm_campaign=10078-Skimbit+Ltd.&utm_term=coindesk.com), with layoffs [estimated](https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/gemini-lays-of-10-of-its-workforce-citing-bad-actors-reports-say-2023-1) to affect 100 of its roughly 1,000 employees—its [latest round](https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/01/04/amazon-reportedly-cutting-17000-jobs-as-major-layoffs-continue-into-2023/?sh=1e86e16d5c6e) of cuts after it slashed 7% of its staff last July, and another 10% last May. [SEC filing](https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1002047/000119312523019739/d395436d8k.htm) to lay off 8% of its staff ( [estimated](https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/31/netapp-a-specialist-in-cloud-data-management-says-it-will-lay-off-8-or-around-960-people-citing-economic-climate/) to affect 960 employees) by the end of the fourth fiscal quarter of 2023 “in light of the macroeconomic challenges and reduced spending environment.” [confirmed](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64549761) to multiple [news](https://apnews.com/article/boeing-co-virginia-business-a6525dc7f58100c924ae2f7e2ce97e6d?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_11) outlets [plans](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64549761) to [cut](https://apnews.com/article/boeing-co-virginia-business-a6525dc7f58100c924ae2f7e2ce97e6d?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_11) around 2,000 jobs in finance and human resources this year, though the firm said it will increase its overall headcount by 10,000 employees “with a focus on engineering and manufacturing.” [memo](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/908937/000090893723000008/emltoallstafffromjenniferw.htm) to employees the layoffs will affect roughly 8% of its nearly 6,000 employees (roughly 475 positions) and affect “nearly every department,” as executives attempt to “maintain a sustainably profitable company” amid “today’s uncertain economic environment.”

Amazon intends to lay off 9000 more employees — on top of the 18000 job cuts it previously announced, CEO Andy Jassy said.

However, given the uncertain economy in which we reside, and the uncertainty that exists in the near future, we have chosen to be more streamlined in our costs and headcount. To those ultimately impacted by these reductions, I want to thank you for the work you have done on behalf of customers and the company. I remain very optimistic about the future and the myriad of opportunities we have, both in our largest businesses, Stores and AWS, and our newer customer experiences and businesses in which we’re investing. This initially led us to eliminate 18,000 positions (which we shared in January); and, as we completed the second phase of our planning this month, it led us to these additional 9,000 role reductions (though you will see limited hiring in some of our businesses in strategic areas where we’ve prioritized allocating more resources). “For several years leading up to this one, most of our businesses added a significant amount of headcount,” Jassy wrote in the memo, which Amazon shared publicly. This was a difficult decision, but one that we think is best for the company long term.