Amazon’s hardware chief confirms impending wave of layoffs – IT Pro – News

The total number of Amazon employees in 2021 was 1,608,000, an increase of 23.88% compared to 2020.
The total number of Amazon employees in 2020 was 1,298,000, an increase of 62.66% compared to 2019.
The total number of Amazon employees in 2019 was 798,000, an increase of 23.24% compared to 2018.
The total number of Amazon employees in 2018 was 647,500, an increase of 14.4% compared to 2017.

You are good at achieving something new, having achieved it, you may simply no longer need people for this. I liked how they say in construction, 30 men are needed to build a house, 5 are needed for maintenance and 2 are enough to live in it.

While it wouldn’t surprise me that many of those 10,000 jobs also contain positions that were completely necessary/interesting/important about 3 years ago, but now it slowly seems that over the years that haven’t actually added value (we also received every month a new consultant, analyst or manager, who are now slowly disappearing again – net added value 0).