[alberth]

For context:

  Total # Employee:  1,556,000
  Planned # Layoff:     14,000  (or 0.9%)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company)

[danpalmer]

This isn't the whole story though. While Amazon might have 1.5m employees, many of those are going to be in the fulfilment and distribution process, which is a very different place to being in engineering/product/finance/business/marketing working in an office.

I think it would be more useful to split the company down that line, in which case Amazon probably have ~300k(?) on the office side, and this represents more like a 4-5% layoff, a level at which people will really notice it.

[nzealand]

> This reduction marks a 13% drop in Amazon’s global management workforce, shrinking the number of managers from 105,770 to 91,936.

(second sentence in btw)

[alberth]

> “fulfillment … which is a very different place to being in … working in an office.”

Where does it say anything about this being only “office” jobs, as you put it.

[abnercoimbre]

Now this is proper context, thank you.