Figure represents nearly 10% of the company’s roughly 350,000 corporate employees

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/37968628

Amazon is preparing to lay off tens of thousands of corporate workers, reversing its pandemic hiring spree. The cuts come months after the retail giant’s CEO warned white-collar employees their jobs could be taken by artificial intelligence.

I’m sure the tRump slump has nothing to do with it

  • BakerBagel@midwest.socialEnglish
    30·
    1 day ago

    They thought like would go up forever, and now that the line is starting to slow down, they gotta do a sacrifice to make the line look like it is still going up

    • Tire@lemmy.mlEnglish
      18·
      1 day ago

      And it’s because the line is SLOWING not even going down. These companies continue to make a healthy profit but they want twice that so now 30k people need to suffer.