Amazon on March 20 announced another round of layoffs, saying that it’s letting go of 9,000 employees or roughly 3 percent of its corporate workforce.
The cuts will primarily affect those in Amazon’s cloud web services unit, the Twitch gaming division, advertising, and the PXT Solutions unit, CEO Andy Jassy said in a blog post published on March 20.
“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,” he said.
The change comes just about two months after the online retail giant announced its 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….