Amazon is laying off 16,000 employees
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The notifications state that employees will receive full pay and benefits for 90 days.
The layoffs mark the second round of mass cuts at Amazon since last October, when the company laid off roughly 14,000 employees across its corporate workforce.
The document describes pay, benefits, severance and other topics for staff who are losing their jobs in this round of layoffs.
Amazon sent a notice out to staffers in an apparent error acknowledging "organizational changes" at the company.
Amazon said Wednesday it was slashing another 16,000 jobs across the company in an ongoing bid to restructure the sprawling trillion-dollar firm.
Amazon’s latest round of layoffs is set to hit 16,000 corporate employees starting Wednesday — with the tech titan suggesting artificial intelligence will do their work, instead. The firings come after Amazon said in October it was laying off 14,
Who is Colleen Aubrey and what is Project Dawn? Amazon announced a second wave of 16,000 corporate job cuts. The layoffs, linked to Project Dawn, involve AWS, retail, and corporate teams. Employees will get internal reapplication opportunities,
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Amazon (AMZN.O) on Tuesday appeared to have prematurely alerted Amazon Web Services cloud-computing employees to layoffs planned for Wednesday morning by sending a commiseration email and team-wide meeting invitation hours early.