Amazon will lay off hundreds of people in its cloud computing division.
This was reported by Bloomberg, as reported by Ukrinform.
“To continue focusing our efforts on key strategic areas that we believe will deliver the greatest return, we have identified several target areas of the organization that need to be optimized,” Amazon Web Services said in a statement.
Personnel changes will affect sales and marketing employees, as well as the team that develops technology for physical stores.
According to an Amazon representative, the company will try to find new positions for laid-off employees.
A year ago, Amazon Web Services made the largest layoffs in company history as part of a cost-cutting program; In this program, Amazon laid off 27,000 corporate employees following increased hiring during the coronavirus pandemic.
As Ukrinform reported, in February it became known that Nike would lay off about 2% of its total workforce, or more than 1,600 people, to cut costs due to the loss of demand for its products.