Internal messages reveal which teams, jobs affected in Amazon layoffs
10 days ago
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- Amazon is laying off 16,000 corporate employees, marking its second round of layoffs in four months.
- Affected teams include Amazon Web Services (AWS) units like Bedrock, Redshift, and ProServe, as well as retail teams like Prime and Delivery Experience.
- Many impacted employees are software engineers, with US-based employees given 90 days to find new internal roles.
- Severance and health insurance benefits will be provided to those who cannot secure new positions internally.
- This follows an earlier round of layoffs in October, where 14,000 roles were cut.
- Amazon's corporate workforce is about 350,000 out of its total 1.5 million global employees.
- Details of the layoffs were accidentally leaked via a calendar invite from a senior executive.