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hoodyninja t1_jd14hwy wrote

Reply to comment by Seankps in Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers in addition to earlier cuts by Familiar-Turtle

Exactly. Always more to the story than the headline. A couple of years ago they were around 900k employees and are now around 1.6MILLION employees. Yes with this additional 9,000 they are around 35,000 layoffs…. That’s not a lot.

If any other company was like, “hey everyone over the past 2-3 years we doubled our staff and over-hired a bit… and are correcting this year. Unfortunately we are going to lay off 2% of the staff (again we doubled our staff and have to reduce by 2% now).” it likely wouldn’t make headlines.

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TomPrince t1_jd18v2c wrote

This is a great point. Amazon should quantify their layoffs as a percentage.

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hoodyninja t1_jd197i0 wrote

Hahaha right?

I don’t know for sure but I imagine they do to their shareholders but a headline of “Amazon doubles workforce in 2 years and then corrects by 2%” doesn’t sound like it’s gonna get clicks

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DevAway22314 t1_jd4bzcl wrote

The vast majority of those employees are warehouse and delivery roles

It's useless to lump them in with the corporate and tech roles, which is where all the layoffs are

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