Amazon to lay off 9,000 employees on top of 18,000 in January

NEW YORK –

Amazon plans to remove 9,000 extra jobs within the subsequent few weeks, CEO Andy Jassy stated in a memo to workers on Monday.

The job cuts would mark the second largest spherical of layoffs within the firm’s historical past, including to the 18,000 workers the corporate stated it will lay off in January.

In the memo, Jassy stated the second part of the corporate’s annual planning course of accomplished this month and led to the extra job cuts. He stated Amazon will nonetheless rent in some strategic areas.

“Some may ask why we didn’t announce these role reductions with the ones we announced a couple months ago. The short answer is that not all of the teams were done with their analyses in the late fall; and rather than rush through these assessments without the appropriate diligence, we chose to share these decisions as we’ve made them so people had the information as soon as possible,” Jassy stated.