Andy Jassy says Amazon plans to lay off an additional 9,000 employees, mostly in AWS, PXT, Advertising, and Twitch, after cutting 18,000+ jobs in January 2023
Today I shared with Twitch employees that we've … Annie Palmer / CNBC : Amazon's post-Bezos experiment hasn't gone exactly as planned Bloomberg : Amazon to Cut 9,000 More Jobs, Deepening Biggest Pullback Ever Spec / Phandroid : Amazon to cut another 9000 jobs Jonathan M. 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Chris Kerr / Game Developer : Twitch cutting over 400 jobs after revenue and user growth stalls Todd Spangler / Variety : Amazon Laying Off 9,000 More Employees, Including Cuts at Twitch Derek Strickland / TweakTown : Amazon mass layoff continues with 9,000 more job losses, Twitch affected Andy Chalk / PC Gamer : Twitch lays off more than 400 employees as Amazon cuts another 9,000 jobs Keerthi Vedantam / Crunchbase News : With 9,000 New Cuts, Amazon Leads With Most Tech Layoffs Quentyn Kennemer / SlashGear : Amazon Is Laying Off Another 9,000 Workers Charles Mandel / BetaKit : Amazon won't confirm how many Canadians impacted by forthcoming 9,000 employee layoffs Dan Primack / Axios : Amazon to lay off 9,000 more employees Haleluya Hadero / Tech Xplore : Amazon cuts 9,000 more jobs, bringing 2023 total to 27,000 Derrek Lee / Android Central : Amazon to lay off 9,000 more employees as Big Tech continues shedding workforce Theo Burman / Dexerto : Sodapoppin shocked over Twitch layoffs with staff not told who has lost their job Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers, including at AWS, as cost-cutting effort continues Matthew Gooding / Tech Monitor : AWS hit as Amazon makes 9,000 redundancies in latest round of Big Tech layoffs Nida Zafar / MobileSyrup : Amazon to lay off another 9,000 employees Caroline Donnelly / ComputerWeekly.com : Amazon CEO Andy Jassy confirms 9,000 further job cuts across AWS, Twitch and its advertising arm John Callaham / Neowin : Amazon to lay off another 9,000 employees on top of 18,000 earlier worker cuts [Update] Vish Gain / Silicon Republic : Amazon plans another 9,000 job cuts amid drive to be leaner Bailey Schulz / USA Today : Amazon layoffs continue: Tech giant to cut another 9,000 jobs, CEO Jassy says PYMNTS.com : Amazon Plans 9K New Job Cuts Ariel Zilber / New York Post : Amazon to lay off 9,000 weeks after firing 18,000 staffers: ‘This is best for the company’ Brian O'Donovan / RTÉ : Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers worldwide Paul Thurrott / Thurrott : Amazon to Lay Off Another 9,000 Employees WebProNews : Amazon Laying Off 9,000 More, With AWS Hard-Hit Mark Haranas / CRN : AWS Layoffs On The Way As Amazon Cuts 9,000 Employees The Information : Amazon Laying Off 9,000 More Employees, Including in AWS, Ads, Twitch The Economic Times : Fresh round of Amazon layoffs to impact 9,000 employees across AWS, Twitch, advertising Jon Fingas / Engadget : Amazon will lay off another 9,000 employees in the coming weeks Catherine Thorbecke / WRAL TechWire : Amazon laying off another 9,000 workers, upping total to 27,000 in '23 Luke Bouma / Cord Cutters News : Amazon Will Lay Off 9,000 More Workers After Earlier Cuts Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter : Amazon Will Lay Off 9,000 More Employees Kevin Hurler / Gizmodo : Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Announces an Additional 9,000 Layoffs Annie Palmer / NBC News : Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts David Allen / OnMSFT.com : Amazon plans to lay off another 9,000 employees Anwesha Mitra / Livemint : Amazon announces fresh round of layoffs, to cut 9,000 jobs in coming weeks LinkedIn: Dave Morgan : Drum-roll of repetitive, successive & large industry layoffs like this from @amazon and @Meta and others finally giving everyone a sense … Becky Brownlee : I'm currently in the People Experience & Tech (PXT) org at Amazon. We've been impacted by 3 separate rounds of layoffs since November. … Tweets: Roland Li / @rolandlisf : Twitch layoffs affect more than 400 workers https://blog.twitch.tv/... New CEO Dan Clancy: “Like many companies, our business has been impacted by the current macroeconomic environment, and user and revenue growth has not kept pace with our expectations” https://twitter.com/... @quill18 : “Twitch Ceo lays off 400 employees” I am filled with expectations that this will all end well. https://blog.twitch.tv/... Nathan Grayson / @vahn16 : this comes shortly after the departure of longtime twitch ceo emmett shear last week. twitch laid off recruiting staff last year and reduced hiring in an attempt to avoid further layoffs @merrittk : Actually evil shit https://twitter.com/... Zach Bussey / @zachbussey : Well planned for Emmett Shear to step down as CEO before the bad news hit. Not that him staying would have changed the outcome, or made any difference. But, it allowed him to walk away without the legacy on his last days being layoffs. Cecilia D'Anastasio / @cecianasta : Twitch is laying off 400 people days after CEO Emmett Shear steps down. The layoffs are part of broader cuts at Amazon. Twitch's new president cites how “user and revenue growth has not kept pace with our expectations” as well as the macroeconomic climate. https://blog.twitch.tv/... Gergely Orosz / @gergelyorosz : Just in: Andy Jassy Amazon announced eliminating another 9,000 roles across AWS, Twitch, Advertising, and PXT (People Experience Technology) in a memo sent ~15 minutes ago. This is on top of the 18,000 role cuts announced in Dec/Jan. This is brutal. More thoughts & details: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Multiple rounds of layoffs are now a thing across big tech. One has to assume the economic damage from high interest rates is worse than these companies imagined in 2022. The bank collapses alone have been collateral damage most of us didn't expect and inflation is still at 6%. https://twitter.com/... Leo Polovets / @lpolovets : Amazon is announcing a layoff where employees will know if they're impacted in 3-5 weeks. What's the logic behind a move like this? Would this needlessly increase anxiety and hurt morale? Why not announce layoffs when Amazon knows who will be impacted? https://www.cnbc.com/... https://twitter.com/... Dee Sadler / @deesadler : With Meta and MS laying folks off, no wonder the rest of us can't find a job. https://twitter.com/... Kelly Vaughn / @kvlly : The fact that AWS is included in this one is surprising and mildly alarming https://twitter.com/... Gergely Orosz / @gergelyorosz : From the note: “If I go back to our tenet - being leaner while doing so in a way that enables us to still invest robustly (...) I believer the result of this year's planning cycle is a plan that accomplishes this objective.” Aka: cuts are because the business wants/needs this. Gergely Orosz / @gergelyorosz : When Meta announced another ~13% cuts, just 6 months after their initial ~13% cuts: it could have been dismissed as “97% of Meta's revenue is ads”. (My analysis on Meta's cuts: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.co m/ ...) For Amazon: this is not true. Bad news across all of Big Tech. Olivia Solon / @oliviasolon : Wow. Amazon cutting another 9,000 jobs. When @aggichristiane and I wrote this in August, HR experts said one of the worst things companies can do for morale is lay people off in multiple rounds, instead of one big round. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Gergely Orosz / @gergelyorosz : According to the memo, these cuts were finalized as planning ended with OP2 (details about Amazon's OP1/OP2 planning process: https://t.co/...) There is a clear goal to become leaner: similar to how Meta justified cuts. Gergely Orosz / @gergelyorosz : A BIG surprise: AWS impacted. Why a surprise? When Google did layoffs, Google Cloud was notably absent. As I covered this in @Pragmatic_Eng in January: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.co m/ ... AWS is also a major profit center within Amazon - if not the biggest one! Cuts here is bad news. https://twitter.com/... See also Mediagazer