RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Amazon is planning to lay off some 10,000 employees across a wide variety of office worker roles, according to reports in The Wall Street Journal and New York Times.
The Wall Street Journal cited an unnamed source saying layoffs would number in “the thousands.”
The cuts, said The WSJ, are part of “a broad cost-cutting review led by Chief Executive Andy Jassy, a person familiar with the matter said.”
Cuts are expected to begin this week and target corporate, retail as well as Amazon device business.
Amazon just last week disclosed a “pause” in corporate hiring.
CNBC also reported on the layoffs.
The layoffs are the latest to hammer the tech sector, including more than 11,000 disclosed last week by Meta.
Twitter also has cut headcount in the thousands.
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Amazon has yet to comment.
The reductions “would be the largest job cuts in the company’s history,” according to the Times. Citing unnamed sources, it said some 10,000 workers would lose jobs.
However, no mentions were made in cutbacks among delivery services. Amazon has invested heavily in warehouses and delivery operations across the Triangle and North Carolina. The internet giant recently announced plans to hire thousands of workers for the holiday season and beyond.
Amazon operates a number of facilities in the Triangle, including a mammoth warehouse in Garner, and other sites across the state. The company recently closed one in Durham and is facing a unionization effort at the Garner site.
Amazon’s workforce in the state soared to more than 32,000 full- and part-time jobs in the period between 2010 and the end of 2021, a spokesperson for Amazon told WRAL TechWire in March. According to the spokesperson, the company had made investments in excess of $5.5 billion, as of the end of 2021, with plans to continue to hire.
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