Amazon.com will cut jobs in the United States, Canada and Costa Rica as part of a plan to lay off 18,000 employees, the company said in an internal memo seen by Reuters on Wednesday.
The company is laying off 2,300 workers in Seattle and Bellevue, according to an update on the US Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) website.
US labor law requires companies planning massive layoffs to inform employees about the plans 60 days before they take effect.
Amazon.com Chief Executive Andy Jassy said earlier this month that the cuts, about 6% of the company’s roughly 300,000 employees, will mainly affect its e-commerce and human resources divisions.
On Wednesday, Microsoft announced 10,000 layoffs.
Source: CNN Brasil
A journalist with over 7 years of experience in the news industry, currently working at World Stock Market as an author for the Entertainment section and also contributing to the Economics or finance section on a part-time basis. Has a passion for Entertainment and fashion topics, and has put in a lot of research and effort to provide accurate information to readers.
