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Re:Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division by acatnamedjoe on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @09:15AM (#45732469)
"Firing" is becoming a bit more common in Britain, but still sounds like an Americanism to my British ears.

I would use "sacking" for performance related termination, and "losing ones job" in all other cases. I suspect BBC would use the same.

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Re:Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division by cjrp on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @09:22AM (#45732550)
"Made redundant" is another term for the latter.
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Re:Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division by ghaff on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @09:41AM (#45732784)
Which, at least in American English, comes across like corporate jargon/weasel words. Lost their job is literally true and would probably take a bunch more words to describe the precise reasons.
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Re:Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division by darrenf on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @10:07AM (#45733101)
Both things can be literally true. I've lost my job by being made redundant, twice. In Britain redundancy is a very specific thing, where your role no longer exists and you must be let go in a fair way according to employment law. It's quite the opposite of jargon or weasel words here: https://www.gov.uk/redundancy-your-rights
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Re:Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division by hackeraccount on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @12:23PM (#45734919)
Synergized is the term I typically hear.
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