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by danpalmer 460 days ago
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.

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> 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)

> “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.

Now this is proper context, thank you.