After news of the layoffs leaked to the public, Jassy confirmed the speculation in a post on Amazon’s website, saying that talks with the affected workers would begin on January 18, and that they would be offered severance pay and job search support. another job.

The departments of online trade (Amazon Stores) and human resources management will be most affected by the layoffs, he said.

The Seattle-based company began laying off workers in its device division in November, with a source telling Reuters at the time that it was targeting 10,000 layoffs.

Amazon employs more than 1.5 million workers globally, is the second-largest private employer in the US, and is bracing for a likely slowdown in business growth as rising inflation forces businesses and consumers to cut spending.

According to the announcement, Amazon will eliminate more jobs than other large companies, which will represent a quick turnaround for the retailer who in previous months doubled the upper limit of the basic salary in the company in order to compete for talent better, writes Reuters.

Namely, on the eve of the expected recession and due to weaker business results, layoffs were already announced in earlier months by Meta, the owner of Facebook, which said it would lay off more than 11,000 workers, Microsoft announced that it would lay off about a thousand, and mass layoffs have already the social platform Twitter also started.