amazon job cuts

“No one is safe.” So wrote an Amazon.com Inc. employee on an internal chat room as the company began the largest round of layoffs in its history. The mood, especially in the hard-hit devices team, reflected the shock and dismay of people more accustomed to growing budgets and moonshots than talk of recession and austerity.  Devices chief Dave Limp, in a note to his team on Wednesday, said the firings pained him. He pledged severance payments for people who can't find other jobs inside the company. But for many…

Amazon.com Inc. employees who learned Tuesday that they were being fired from the devices team will receive severance packages if they can’t find other roles inside the company. Amazon.com Inc. employees who learned Tuesday that they were being fired from the devices team will receive severance packages if they can't find other roles inside the company.It was the e-commerce giant's first acknowledgment of a headcount cull that's expected to be the deepest in the company's history. Bloomberg reported earlier that some…

Amazon.com Inc is planning to lay off around 10000 employees in corporate and technology roles beginning this week. Amazon.com Inc is planning to lay off around 10000 employees in corporate and technology roles beginning this week, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday, in what would amount to its biggest such reduction to date.The Amazon job cuts, earlier reported by the New York Times, would represent about 3% of Amazon's corporate staff. The exact number may vary as businesses within Amazon review their…