The big tech layoffs are continuing apace, and it seems nobody is safe. Following this month's massive staff cuts at Twitter and Meta, the New York Times reports that Amazon is now planning to let go of approximately 10,000 employees.
Amazon's upcoming job cuts will reportedly impact its corporate employees, specifically its retail division, human resources, and the team working on the company's devices (which includes voice assistant Alexa).
Considering that Amazon employs over 1.5 million people across the globe, 10,000 workers laid off may not seem like a significant percentage from the company's perspective. It amounts to about 0.7 percent of Amazon's employees, which is a considerably smaller relative reduction than Twitter's Elon Musk-induced layoffs that cut its workforce by around 50 percent.
But Amazon is also a much bigger company, with its planned layoffs eclipsing Twitter's entire employee headcount even before Musk began burning everything to the ground. No matter how you slice it, 10,000 is an awful lot of people out of work just before the holidays.
Amazon's cuts will reportedly occur in small waves, rather than replicating the lawless chaos of Twitter's mass layoffs. Still, this is cold comfort to those potentially on the chopping block.
