Yet, it is a small percentage of its workforce.
Around the same time, Amazon announced that it would be laying off 10,000 employees, but as we entered the new year, the number has ballooned by another 8,000 as more employees have been added to the list of job cuts that will happen over the coming weeks.While the global economy came to a grinding halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon was one of the few companies that saw record growth as people turned to online modes of shopping and entertainment.
However, as life returned to normal, following the decrease in COVID-19 cases, customers went back to shopping in stores and Amazon was forced to look for ways to cut down its costs. Apart from a hiring freeze, the company also shut down some of its physical stores and unprofitable businesses. With the demand showing no signs of growth in the uncertain economic climate, Amazon decided to let employees go, a number that was nearly doubled in the past couple of months.
"Amazon has weathered uncertain and difficult economies in the past, and we will continue to do so," said CEO Andy Jassy in a blog post while also adding that the majority of the job cuts are in the retail and recruiting side of its business focused in its corporate ranks.Amazon's layoffs are definitely the highest in absolute numbers for the technology industry. Yet, they account for only five percent of that element of its workforce and 1.
In contrast, other tech companies have laid off a larger share of their total employees during this period. Meta's job cuts announced last year would account for a reduction of its workforce by 13 percent, while Salesforce added earlier this week that it was also reducing its employee count by 10 percent.
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