Amazon is preparing to lay off more than 18,000 employees

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Amazon cutting 18,000 jobs

Amazon.com Inc. is laying off more than 18,000 employees — the biggest corporate workforce reduction in company history — in the latest sign that a tech-industry slump is deepening.

Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy announced the move in a memo to staff Wednesday, saying it followed the company's annual planning process.

[Bloomberg]
 
Well the prices these companies want to charge for new tech, there is no surprise that tech-industry is slumping!
 
The reduction is concentrated in the firm’s corporate ranks, mostly Amazon’s retail division and human resources functions like recruiting.
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So not tech staff as such. But a forerunner of a great worldwide recession, this time coupled with a strong dollar and high interest rates.

/checks ammo stock levels in bunker
 
I read somewhere that working for this company is a nightmare, the way they treat you.
 
mylesillidge said:
Amazon.com Inc. is laying off more than 18,000 employees
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in case anyone was wondering how they could cut another 18k after doing a similar number late last year ... the grand total is around 18k for the two rounds of cuts combined, something that doesn't exactly become clear from the dramatic headlines:

"Between the reductions we made in November and the ones we’re sharing today, we plan to eliminate just over 18,000 roles"
 
"The reduction is concentrated in the firm’s corporate ranks, mostly Amazon’s retail division and human resources functions like recruiting."

So not much of an actual loss then.
HR and recruiting are probably some of the most useless parasitic positions in most corporations in my experience.
 
RaptorSA said:
"The reduction is concentrated in the firm’s corporate ranks, mostly Amazon’s retail division and human resources functions like recruiting."

So not much of an actual loss then.
HR and recruiting are probably some of the most useless parasitic positions in most corporations in my experience.
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HR's main function is to protect management from you. Recruitment is needed to replace you.
 
Scooby_Doo said:
I have friends in the recruiting space. :/
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I know an Amazon recruiter and she worked in her leave because they are filling positions in Nigeria and Kenya where they are opening new offices.

These 18000 jobs are US/EU jobs - who are being replaced by Africans.
 
It would be nice to see the distribution of job cuts, across the countries Amazon operates in.

Don't know why, but it feels like tech-related jobs aren't so affected by the lay-offs or hiring freezes. Almost feels like companies are laying off what they can afford to lay-off. Could be wrong.
Pegasus said:
HR's main function is to protect management from you. Recruitment is needed to replace you.
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This is interesting. I always understood HR to be the department that serves the employer's interests in many ways, not so much the employee's interests.
 
Once again the bots are coming will come to take your job.

Take recruitment as an example.... I've already had to do much of a recruiter's job for them the past few years since specialization these days mean much of the decisions about a candidate is made by the technical people, which is understandable.

Now, bring in the AI bots and you end up with yet another job function that can be taken up by people not necessarily in that role.

3 sentences on Chat.GPT and you have a job description as well as some basic python code for posting it to LinkedIn or whatever if you so please to automate it even further.

I mean, how long would it have taken the average recruiter to do someting like this up until recently, assuming they even could? If this takes 5 mins, what can be done with 1 hour, 8 hours?

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The times they are changing, FAST, and we're all in the crosshairs unless we adapt.
 
Nerfherder said:
I know an Amazon recruiter and she worked in her leave because they are filling positions in Nigeria and Kenya where they are opening new offices.

These 18000 jobs are US/EU jobs - who are being replaced by Africans.
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Well, she has not said anything yet - but not a nice thing to deal with. I have been through the retrenchment vibes, not fun.
 
One of the advantages of having a socialist government....
 
Friend of my kid's dad is relocating to Canada, Amazon employee. Hope that works out, imagine the disaster you get to your new country and bam, fired, bye bye now...
 
RaptorSA said:
"The reduction is concentrated in the firm’s corporate ranks, mostly Amazon’s retail division and human resources functions like recruiting."

So not much of an actual loss then.
HR and recruiting are probably some of the most useless parasitic positions in most corporations in my experience.
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Based and Raptor-pilled.
 
RaptorSA said:
Once again the bots are coming will come to take your job.

Take recruitment as an example.... I've already had to do much of a recruiter's job for them the past few years since specialization these days mean much of the decisions about a candidate is made by the technical people, which is understandable.

Now, bring in the AI bots and you end up with yet another job function that can be taken up by people not necessarily in that role.

3 sentences on Chat.GPT and you have a job description as well as some basic python code for posting it to LinkedIn or whatever if you so please to automate it even further.

I mean, how long would it have taken the average recruiter to do someting like this up until recently, assuming they even could? If this takes 5 mins, what can be done with 1 hour, 8 hours?

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The times they are changing, FAST, and we're all in the crosshairs unless we adapt.
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I was writing a request for proposal today. Chat GPT probably saved me 3 hours today by nicely rewording the nonsense my brain produces.

Last year, I had it create scripts that will run through a SharePoint library, find all subfolders matching a string regardless of location move them to a separate SharePoint library. Not having to trawl through the Rclone docs trying to find the right syntax for aged based filters. It even provided an explanation of why it was using the functions it selected.

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