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Earlier, Dave Limp, head of Amazon’s hardware department, told his teamconfirmed, the company “will consolidate some of the teams and projects”, so “some roles will no longer be needed”. “I’m sorry to break this to you, because we all know that means the company will lose a lot of good people in the device and services industry,” Limp wrote in the letter. “Although I know this news is hard to swallow, but I still want to emphasize that the devices and services division remains one of Amazon’s important investment areas and we will continue to create new products for customers.”
Limp didn’t say anything about the scale of the layoffs. But according to the story that broke before the New York Times, there could be just as manyten thousandjobs suffer. Limp said Amazon will provide “a variety of assistance including severance payments, transitional benefits, and outside job placement support” for terminated employees, and some employees will also have the opportunity to change jobs within the organization. agency. In a follow-up public official statement, Amazon representatives acknowledged that some teams are “going through adjustments” “in light of the current macroeconomic environment (and large-scale hiring in recent years).” This means that “some roles will no longer be needed”, but Amazon “does not make decisions (layoffs) lightly” and will “work hard to support” any employees who may be affected.
