Due to the crisis in the IT sector, many companies, especially Amazon, Facebook and Google, continue to lay off. Amazon, which laid off about 18 thousand people last year, has released a new announcement about the dismissal.
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The company, which has about 300,000 employees, will cut 27 thousand people in total, reducing the company’s size by about 9 percent. Making a statement on the subject, the company announced that it will lay off 9,000 people in the near future.
IT companies have reduced their server and advertising costs due to the economic crisis. Amazon Web Service (AWS) and Amazon SES are among the companies most affected by the crisis.
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The layoffs will also affect Amazon’s streaming unit, Twitch. Dan Clancy, who was appointed CEO of Twitch last week, said the platform will lay off more than 400 employees.
The company will finalize in which units the new layoffs will be made by April. “I don’t think that means much to other companies, except that everyone should be more careful before allowing staff numbers to increase in the future,” said Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in a note to employees that the decision was driven by ongoing analysis of priorities and uncertainty about the economy. “Some may ask why we didn’t announce these role reductions with what we announced a few months ago,” Jassy wrote in her note. The short answer is that not all teams have finished their analysis in late autumn.” made statements.