Amazon Is Said to Plan to Lay Off Thousands of Employees

Re:Amazon Is Said to Plan to Lay Off Thousands of Employees by insane_dreamer on Monday November 14, 2022 @12:31PM (#33597639)

Mass layoffs makes the news because papers depend on sensational headlines, but it's important to put into perspective.

> The pandemic produced Amazon’s most profitable era on record ... Amazon doubled its work force in two years, and funneled its winnings into expansion and experimentation to find the next big things.

So it doubled its head count in the past 3 years and is now trimming by 3% (or 1% of global).

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Re:Amazon Is Said to Plan to Lay Off Thousands of Employees by firstSpeaker on Monday November 14, 2022 @12:46PM (#33597924)

Is that "doubled its work force" for the corporate roles or entire amazon?

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Re:Amazon Is Said to Plan to Lay Off Thousands of Employees by insane_dreamer on Monday November 14, 2022 @01:11PM (#33598312)

see edit to my post above

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Re:Amazon Is Said to Plan to Lay Off Thousands of Employees by san_dimitri on Monday November 14, 2022 @12:47PM (#33597936)

I am assuming the "doubling" might have come from delivery drivers and workers at warehouses mostly. Looks like the good folks who are let go are now mostly from non-engineering.

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Re:Amazon Is Said to Plan to Lay Off Thousands of Employees by secondcoming on Monday November 14, 2022 @01:24PM (#33598534)

I clearly remember growing up in the 1980's and later and hearing about mass redundancies happening during a bad economy.

It was newsworthy because of the potential devastation these events would have had on an area; as in some people may never be employed _ever again_.

It's why Ireland gave so many tax breaks to Apple; they employed thousands from one city. Layoffs would have made an already bad situation far worse.

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Re:Amazon Is Said to Plan to Lay Off Thousands of Employees by outworlder on Monday November 14, 2022 @07:13PM (#33603392)

Right. But hiring freezes are also happening and they are even more impactful.

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