Amazon workers don report say new round of job cuts hit several parts of di company on Tuesday. Some employees write for one internal Slack channel say dem receive email wey tell dem say dem don remove dia roles, according to messages wey Business Insider see.
Di Slack channel get nearly 37,000 members. E quickly fill with questions about severance, how to access internal job postings, and whether more notices still dey come.
Di messages suggest say di cuts spread across several business units. E include customer service, marketplace support, and engineering roles for Amazon retail business. Di cuts also reach India and di UK.
Fewer than 1,000 employees feel di palava in total, according to one person wey know di matter.
Di new cuts show say Amazon cost overhaul still dey reshape di corporate workforce even as di company dey start its biggest spending binge yet. After e remove roughly 30,000 jobs late last year and early this year to cut costs and flatten organization, Amazon dey prepare to spend record $220 billion on data centers, chips, and other infrastructure for AI.
One Amazon spokesperson confirm to Business Insider say di company remove ‘a small number’ of roles on Tuesday, mainly for its Stores business. Di spokesperson talk say, We dey always look our team structures to make sure we set up well to move fast as we innovate for customers. We don adjust parts of our Stores business because we believe dis structure go better help us deliver on our priorities. As part of these changes, we make di difficult decision to eliminate a small number of roles, and we commit to support affected employees through dia transition.
Di layoffs come after months of anxiety among Amazon corporate workforce over prospect of another broad round of cuts, according to people wey know di matter. Employees don dey brace for layoffs after prior reductions, and some leaders don scale back planning for di next several quarters partly because dem expect say dia teams or priorities fit change, according to one of di people.
Di uncertainty leave employees to dey parse leadership meetings, calendar invitations, and team changes for clues.
Inside di Slack channel, workers ask whether all notices don send, how medical leave go dey handled, and whether dem go retain access to Slack and Outlook during dia notice periods. Others wonder whether cuts go reach Mexico and elsewhere for Europe.
For many employees, di immediate question na whether dem fit find another job inside Amazon before dia employment end. One post ask whether workers wey get outside offer during di 90-day notification period go have to forfeit severance if dem leave early.
Amazon no dey alone in pairing job cuts with bigger AI push. Meta eliminate roughly 8,000 roles in May while e shift thousands of other workers into AI initiatives, and Microsoft cut more than 5,000 jobs across July and September.
Amazon, meanwhile, also don dey reach out to former employees, including some wey dem lay off for earlier rounds, about open roles in AWS and its AI businesses.
