ETtech has reached out to Amazon India for a response on the worker feedback made on Grapevine.
Amazon introduced just lately that it is going to lay off over 18,000 workers, beginning January 18. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, in an e mail to employees, cited “uncertain economy” and “rapid hiring” as causes behind the job cuts.
The layoffs come amid quite a few different expertise companies and startups downsizing their workforce after the pandemic years led to those corporations hiring in enormous numbers.
The 18,000 job cuts had been greater than what was introduced final November when Amazon first stated it plans to put off 10,000 workers.
“Between the reductions we made in November and the ones we’re sharing today, we plan to eliminate just over 18,000 roles,” Jassy stated within the assertion to his employees.
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Jassy had stated that a number of groups have been impacted, however the majority of position eliminations are in Amazon Stores and PXT (People Experience and Technology Solutions (PXT Solutions) groups. He additional stated that Amazon was “deeply aware these role eliminations are difficult for people, and we don’t take these decisions lightly”.India firings
ET had reported in November that the etailer was trying to minimize jobs in right here as properly. Last yr, it shut a few of its comparatively smaller companies in India like meals supply, wholesale distribution, and Amazon Academy, as half of a bigger restructuring.
In an interview with ET in December, Amazon’s client business nation supervisor for India – Manish Tiwary – had stated the agency was solely relooking at experiments right here and never shutting companies and that it stays dedicated to the native market.
Tiwary additionally added that the native arm of the Seattle-based agency would double down on its investments in its business-to-business (B2B) market, pharmacy, grocery, and social commerce in 2023.
According to a report by Indian news company PTI final week, the India layoff figures could be round 1,000. “The determination to remove 18,000 job roles throughout the globe will affect about 1,000 workers in India,” the report stated, citing sources accustomed to the matter.