[donavanm]

You're drastically conflating two very different sides of the house. Hourly workers are generally employed in logistics, FCs, customer service etc. This segment dramatically increased in 2020, to 1.2-1 4M employees IIRC, and for the past year CFO Olsavsky has talked about shedding ~20% of this workforce as demand scales back down. A lot of that is simply accomplished by slowing hiring and letting the high turn over rate happen.

Separately there are teh corporate employees in finance, tech roles, management, etc. These are teh employees in question when CEO Jassy and friends have talked about shrinking some divisions like health care or alexa. This is also where the recent 10-20k numbers are concerned.