Extensive layoffs at Amazon.
Perhaps the strongest evidence of the global crisis, with an emphasis on the giants of technology (Photo: Unsplash)
About two months ago, in November 2022, Amazon confirmed that it intends to lay off close to 10,000 employees, due to the erosion of its profits and erosion of its value, as part of the crisis affecting the technology industry.
However, yesterday the "Wall Street Journal" published that the real number of those laid off is almost double and the company will say goodbye to less than 18,000 employees.
Even the very publication involved embarrassment for the shopping giant.
One of the company's executives leaked the information to the New York newspaper, which published the real number of those fired, and Amazon's CEO, Andy Jesse, was forced to confirm the updated number - and even admitted that he only did so because of the leak.
Amazon also has employees in Israel, but at the moment it is not known if the list The fired includes them too.
18,000 of the employees will receive a surprise dismissal letter (Photo: ShutterStock)
The online shopping giant employs close to one and a half million workers in dozens of countries around the world, but not all of them are directly employed by the company - and some are employees of local representatives and suppliers.
It is estimated that the laid off will be all of those directly employed by the company in the USA..
Layoffs on a large scale have hit all the technology giants, from manufacturers like Intel to platforms like Meta (Facebook), but such a high number of people laid off at once is unprecedented in the current crisis and is further evidence The drastic diet that the industry is going through, which until recently was considered a dream destination in the job seeker market.
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