At Amazon, 9000,18 more employees are to lose their jobs. Company CEO Andy Jassy announced the second wave of job cuts in an email to employees on Monday. At the beginning of the year, the world's largest online retailer had already cut 000,1 of its more than 5.<> million jobs. This time, among other things, employees of the cloud division AWS, in the advertising business and the livestreaming service Twitch are affected, wrote Jassy in the e-mail published by Amazon.
The tech giants had also greatly expanded their workforces with the business upswing in the corona pandemic. At Amazon, for example, the number of full-time and part-time employees doubled from 800,000 at the end of 2019 to more than 1.6 million at the end of 2021. Last week, the Facebook group Meta was the first of the online giants to initiate a second round of job cuts. After 11,000 jobs in November, around 10,000 more jobs are to be cut and 5000,<> vacancies are not to be filled.