Amazon on March 20 announced yet another round of layoffs, saying that it’s letting go of 9,000 employees or roughly 3 percent of its corporate workforce.
In a blog post published on March 20, CEO Andy Jassy said the cuts will primarily affect those in Amazon’s cloud web services, the Twitch gaming division, advertising, and the PXT Solutions unit.
“Given the uncertain economy in which we reside, and the uncertainty that exists in the near future, we have chosen to be more streamlined in our costs and headcount,” Jassy said.
The change comes just about two months after the online retail giant unveiled the plan to eliminate 18,000 roles, the majority of which would come from the PXT and Amazon Stores divisions. That round of job cuts itself was the extension of last November’s headcount reduction effort expected to affect about 10,000 workers in Amazon’s divisions of devices, retail, and human resources….