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The biggest layoffs of 2023: Amazon to Microsoft, firms fired employees in jaw-dropping numbers
Upon delving into the reasons behind this deceleration, two predominant factors surface: the economic downturn and the widespread impact of AI, directly and indirectly usurping a multitude of job roles.
AP News
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Amazon cuts 9,000 more jobs, bringing 2023 total to 27,000 | AP News
March 20, 2023 - Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is telling employees in a memo that the company plans to eliminate 9,000 more jobs in the next few weeks.
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Reddit
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r/Layoffs on Reddit: Amazon Layoffs
September 9, 2023 -
I was laid off yesterday.
My leader said: “This has nothing to do with your performance. This decision was not made lightly.”
Yet its so hard to think it’s not based on my performance. They kept people who had less tenure and experience than me (but paid the same)
I asked 100x over my course of tenure there to give me more exposure, to include me in more meetings, to give me more context. From the start, I felt left out. I was set up to fail and not given the opportunity to grow. They often took credit for the things that I BUILT.
Live and learn I guess.
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I don’t kiss ass either and thought that was the reason for my layoffs but tbh the reasoning could be anything so don’t stress out because it’s over and there’s nothing much you can do. Kiss ass or not, if they don’t want you then they’ll find any reason to get rid of you 😕 Move on and find better/greater things.
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This happened to me - FIVE times since 2020. The prior 20 years i'd never even had a termination scare - protected my tenure and seriously devoted my 20's and 30's to career progression and industry respect. I spent my whole career looking out for future 40 year old me... Covid happened - i literally had no control over companies dying - and it's just me in the world so i had no choice either but to just survive. 5x in 3 years being let go for zero reason and that kind of explanation - juggling enough W2's for the government to be suspicious- no doctor i could depend on because that's 5 insurance policies to cancel and switch and wait to be eligible - 5 new company onboarding events - 5 new ERP systems - 5 new roles i'd never experienced - 5 new cultures to adapt to. Most importantly - five times in my career I felt like an absolute complete failure at life. Turned 40 in september ... and got laid off by government shutdown threats 1 week after turning 40. Not only a miserable worthless 40 year old but also - digesting that my past achievements meant nothing and i can't change anything more except to find opportunity 6! Well ... #6 came to me last month only because a niche skillset i learned at #3 caught a recruiter's eye ... if i didn't have the ERP experience from #4 i wouldn't have been qualified...and it was the CPO at #5 that provided the most stellar reference to set me apart. The job though - is actually a culmination of my first 20 years and it's a dream. However - if it weren't for something so specific that i learned in the 5 rodeos since 2020... I wouldn't have made it either. Wear your skillset and resiliency as a badge of honor... don't give up.
InvestorPlace
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Amazon Layoffs 2023: What to Know About the Latest AMZN Job Cuts | InvestorPlace
November 14, 2023 - Amazon layoffs are coming for 180 employees of its Games business as it closes down its Game Growth and Crown Channel initiatives.
NYTimes
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Amazon Plans to Lay Off Another 9,000 Employees (Published 2023)
March 21, 2023 - Amazon plans to lay off 9,000 corporate and tech workers by the end of April, adding to the 18,000 roles it already cut late last year and this January, Andy Jassy, the company’s chief executive, said in a note to employees on Monday. The new layoffs, which amount to less than 3 percent of its corporate work force...
Justin Garrison
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Amazon's Silent Sacking - Justin Garrison
December 30, 2023 - When people are eliminated to raise the stock price bar, operational practices suffer. On September 1st, 2023 I was told by my skip level manager and VP that my team and an adjacent team were being eliminated.
Fortune
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Amazon cuts hundreds of jobs in its Alexa unit as it doubles down on layoffs that already total more than 27,000 over the past year | Fortune
November 17, 2023 - It follows more recent layoffs in Amazon’s gaming and music teams, and also adds to the 27,000 employees the company laid off during the later parts of last year and earlier this year.
Bloomberg
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Amazon (AMZN) Layoffs 2023: Why Employees Are Being Cut - Bloomberg
January 9, 2023 - The largest layoffs in Amazon’s history show that the online retailer still has a lot to prove about its original business. But first…
RetailWire
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Amazon Layoffs & Microsoft Layoffs 2023 - RetailWire
July 20, 2023 - Techcrunch reports that, “senior vice president of People Experience and Technology, Beth Galetti, confirmed the move in a staff memo that has since been published on Amazon’s own blog. In the letter, Galetti notes that the company had already begun pausing or slowing hiring in various corporate departments…” · Overall, the tech industry has seen more than its fair share off layoffs, once again bursting its bubble.
Business Standard
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Amazon layoffs 2023: Employees loose jobs in AWS Cloud Division | World News - Business Standard
April 26, 2023 - Having wrapped up a round of job cuts earlier this year that totaled about 18,000 workers, Amazon announced another 9,000 layoffs in March, which Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy said would land on AWS, human resources, advertising and the ...
USA Today
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Amazon begins next round of layoffs, as tech giant cuts total of more than 18,000 jobs
January 18, 2023 - Amazon's news comes the same day Microsoft announced it would be reducing its workforce by 10,000 people through the end of the third quarter of the 2023 fiscal year (ending March 31). They aren't the only tech companies to recently lay off employees; there were at least 154,000 layoffs from more ...
Retail Dive
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Amazon CEO signals more layoffs to come in 2023 | Retail Dive
November 18, 2022 - After announcing job cuts this week, Andy Jassy said the company would eliminate more roles, including in its team devoted to stores.
CBC News
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Amazon cutting 14,000 corporate jobs to spend more on AI | CBC News
October 28, 2025 - It was the biggest culling at Amazon since 2023, when the company cut 27,000 jobs. Amazon has not said if more job cuts are coming. Yet the jobs market, which has for years been a pillar in the U.S. economy, is showing signs of weakening.
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Amazon announces new round of layoffs | king5.com
While the layoffs announced Tuesday ... of Amazon’s 1.55 million total employees, it would be about 4% of the company’s roughly 350,000 corporate employees. Up until 2022, mass layoffs had been rare at the Seattle-based company.
Times of India
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Amazon announces biggest ever layoffs at its European headquarters; these employees affected the most - The Times of India
3 days ago - "It's still a big impact and will put pressure on Luxembourg."The layoffs won't take effect until February. Details of compensation packages remain confidential, though Chandrasekhar said they "compare favourably" to other social plans in Luxembourg."Our immediate focus will be on implementing the agreed measures and providing support to impacted employees throughout this transition," an Amazon spokesperson said in a statement shared with the media.
CRN
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Amazon And Google Layoffs: 5 Big Takeaways From Latest Cuts
CRN takes a deep dive into Google and Amazon’s recent layoff announcements this week as well as looking back one year ago at January 2023, when Google and Amazon unveiled a total of 30,000 employee layoffs.
The Verge
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Amazon begins another round of layoffs as it cuts more than 18,000 jobs | The Verge
January 18, 2023 - In January, Amazon confirmed the layoffs and their massive scale, saying that including the ones from last year, Wednesday’s round, and potential additional cuts in 2023, they would affect 18,000 employees overall.
Business Insider
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Amazon layoffs: A timeline of the company's hiring freezes, restructuring efforts, and staff reductions into 2024
June 11, 2024 - Amazon layoffs last year were the largest in the company's history. Here's a timeline of the e-commerce giant's hiring freezes and job cuts into 2024.
Business Insider
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List of Layoffs Sweeping US: Hasbro, Amazon, More - Business Insider
December 11, 2023 - Amazon's 18,000 jobs cuts are the largest of any major tech company amid the wave of recent layoffs. Salesforce said in the first month of 2023 that it would enact big job cuts.
Reddit
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r/cscareerquestions on Reddit: [BREAKING] Amazon to layoff 30,000 corporate employees in one of the largest layoffs in its history
October 27, 2025 -
Amazon is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning Tuesday, as the company works to pare expenses and compensate for overhiring during the peak demand of the pandemic, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The figure represents a small percentage of Amazon’s 1.55 million total employees, but nearly 10% of the company’s roughly 350,000 corporate employees. This would represent the largest job cut at Amazon since around 27,000 jobs were eliminated starting in late 2022.
Managers of impacted teams were asked to undergo training on Monday for how to communicate with staff following notifications that will start going out via email tomorrow morning
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/amazon-targets-many-30000-corporate-job-cuts-sources-say-2025-10-27/
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