Well, it鈥檚 official.
Today was certainly not a prime day for workers as the e-tailer turned everything-tailer continued laying off employees to the tune of 10,000 jobs.
Though huge, that number represents only about 3% of the company鈥檚 estimated 1.5 million full- and part-time workers worldwide. Cuts are planned for the behemoth鈥檚 devices, retail and human resources sectors.
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The Amazon cuts also aren鈥檛 the largest in layoff headlines for tech this year. That nefarious award goes to , which earlier this month announced plans to lay off 11,000 workers. At the time, Meta CEO to over-hiring during the pandemic. Yeah, no kidding.
As , Amazon鈥檚 PR team likely scrambled to also heavily promote Amazon CEO 鈥� 鈥渆xclusive鈥� sit-down interview with in which he discussed hismost of his $122 billion fortune during his lifetime.
Isn鈥檛 that nice.
Also on Tuesday, Amazon announced the launch of its new virtual clinic 鈥� all this on the heels of Bezos鈥� tweet last month that followers 鈥渂atten down the hatches.鈥�
See, Amazon wants to help us.
The competing headlines amounted to good vs. bad news whiplash for industry watchers and we can only imagine the conversations among laid-off Amazon workers at happy hour tonight.
Illustration: Dom Guzman
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