It is a known fact that increasing competition, post-COVID-19 issues, economic problems and many other factors are affecting many technology giants in the world. This leads to large layoffs at these companies. For example, at Twitter, which recently came under the leadership of Elon Musk, a significant number of employees were laid off. In addition, Meta, the umbrella company of platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, announced that it had fired 11,000 people in recent days.

Now a new one has been added to the companies that will apply collective redundancies. American e-commerce giant from AmazonIt turned out that he planned to lay off a large number of his employees. This move by the company comes after becoming the first company to lose $1 trillion in value in recent days.

Amazon lays off 10,000 of its employees

That’s according to a New York Times report based on sources close to the subject, Amazon 10,000 employees He plans to fire. While the layoffs are said to begin this week, it is stated that the staff affected will come from human resources, retail and appliances, including products such as artificial intelligence-enabled virtual assistant Alexa. It is possible to guess that this move is part of cost-cutting efforts due to slowing sales and problems in the global economy.

While no official statement has yet been made by the company, this is from Amazon Biggest layoff everIt was reported that I will. According to last year’s figures, the company has about 1 million 608 thousand employees, including full-time and part-time. That means new layoffs will make up less than 1% of the tech giant’s global workforce. It should also be added that the number corresponds to 3% of Amazon’s employees.

Jeff Bezos, the founder and former CEO of Amazon, also recently commented on the economic difficulties. Speaking to CNN about the US economy, the billionaire businessman said: “Chances are, if not now, in the very near future. recession It shows we’re there.” He called on companies not to take risks.