{"id":1795889,"date":"2023-01-05T10:50:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T15:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1795889"},"modified":"2023-01-05T10:50:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T15:50:23","slug":"amazon-to-fire-18000-employees-in-latest-corporate-layoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amazon-to-fire-18000-employees-in-latest-corporate-layoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon to Fire 18,000 Employees in Latest Corporate Layoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famazon-to-fire-18000-employees-in-latest-corporate-layoff%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1795889&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Jeffrey Dastin and Uday Sampath Kumar<\/p>\n<p>(Reuters)\u2014Amazon.com Inc&#8217;s layoffs will now increase to more than 18,000 roles as part of a workforce reduction it previously disclosed, Chief Executive Andy Jassy said in a public staff note on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The layoff decisions, which\u00a0Amazon\u00a0will communicate starting Jan. 18, will largely impact the company&#8217;s e-commerce and human resources organizations, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The cuts amount to 6% of\u00a0Amazon\u2018s roughly 300,000-person corporate workforce and represent a swift turn for a retailer that recently doubled its base pay ceiling to compete more aggressively for talent.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon\u00a0has more than 1.5 million workers including warehouse staff, making it America&#8217;s second-largest private employer after Walmart Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Its stock was up 1.8% at $86.71 in premarket trading on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for London-based trade union GMB said it was aware of the job cuts, but that its members will not be affected by the plans.<\/p>\n<p>Members belonging to the union who work at the\u00a0Amazon\u00a0warehouse in Coventry, central England, are planning to stage a walkout on Jan. 25 over a pay row with the e-commerce giant.<\/p>\n<p>Laurent Degoussee of the SUD union in France also said the plans would not affect the company&#8217;s\u00a0Amazon\u00a0Logistique France unit.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas Harper, a spokesperson for Spain&#8217;s largest trade union CCOO, criticized what he said was a total lack of information from the company.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t know how this will affect us in Spain,&#8221; Harper told Reuters. &#8220;We can assume that this is the first step preceding layoffs in the rest of operations, not just the corporate workforce, but we don&#8217;t have any official data.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jassy said in the note that annual planning &#8220;has been more difficult given the uncertain economy and that we&#8217;ve hired rapidly over the last several years&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon\u00a0has braced for likely slower growth as soaring inflation encouraged businesses and consumers to cut back spending, and its share price has halved in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>The company began letting staff go in November from its devices division, with a source telling Reuters at the time it was targeting around 10,000 cuts.<\/p>\n<p>The tech industry shed more than 150,000 workers in 2022, according to tracking site Layoffs.fyi, a number that&#8217;s continuing to grow.<\/p>\n<p>Salesforce Inc said Wednesday it planned to eliminate about 10% of staff, which numbered nearly 8,000 as of Oct. 31.<\/p>\n<p>The reversal of\u00a0Amazon\u2018s fortunes has been stark. It changed from a business deemed essential during the pandemic for delivering goods to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters)\u2014Amazon.com Inc&#8217;s layoffs will now increase to more than 18,000 roles as part of a workforce reduction it previously disclosed, Chief Executive Andy Jassy said in a public staff note on Wednesday.<br \/>\nThe post Amazon to Fire 18,000 Employees in Latest Corporate Layoff appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1795892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[13411,4558,4092,6079,5183,13026],"class_list":["post-1795889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-13411","tag-amazon","tag-beacon","tag-corporate","tag-employees","tag-layoff"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1795889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1795892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1795889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1795889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1795889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}