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Exclusive: Amazon plans thousands more corporate job cuts next week (www.reuters.com)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by 1984@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world
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More layoffs, more profits.

The full 30,000 jobs would represent a small portion of Amazon’s 1.58 million employees, but nearly 10% of the firm’s corporate workforce. The majority of Amazon’s workers are in fulfillment centers and warehouses.

It would be the largest layoff in Amazon’s three-decade history. The company trimmed about 27,000 jobs in 2022.

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[–] unsettlinglymoist@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My girlfriend worked for Amazon doing finance stuff around a decade ago. They treated their software engineers like royalty and everyone else like robots. She said they had open bars and chefs preparing gourmet meals on demand that only the tech staff could use, while she was brown bagging her lunch every day. Maybe that's common in that industry, I don't know, but hearing that made me laugh because it sounds so Amazon.

[–] kcuf@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Amazon has never been like that, Google has had more perks like that in the past, but Amazon has always been much more frugal.

[–] unsettlinglymoist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I suppose you worked at every Amazon location a decade ago? I think I'll trust my girlfriend on this over some rando on here.

[–] kcuf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Every manager can expense what they want if they can get their manager to support it, so some offices (or more realistically, some teams in some offices) have nicer perks than others, but GREF doesn't provide anything for free. If she was getting free food, that was her management chain doing that, not amazon as a whole (unlike say Google or meta that has free cafeterias, I've never seen a cafeteria in Amazon with free food).