As the dividends of the epidemic fade and e-commerce demand declines, Amazon has raised the number of layoffs to 17,000.

(Associated Press)

[Financial Channel/Comprehensive Report] American e-commerce leader Amazon (Amazon) announced that it will lay off 17,000 employees, 7,000 more than the forecast at the beginning of last year. It is the largest manpower reduction measure in the wave of technology layoffs.

The "Wall Street Journal" reported that Amazon followed the footsteps of Wall Street's technology giants in November last year and successively laid off employees. It is expected to cut 10,000 employees, mainly in the equipment, human resources and retail business departments.

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The number of layoffs will be raised to 17,000 and will be completed within weeks, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

As of last September, Amazon employed a total of 1.5 million workers, mostly warehouse workers.

It is reported that the layoffs will be locked at the office level.

During the epidemic, Amazon was the biggest beneficiary. The high demand from e-commerce to daily necessities retailing to cloud computing has promoted the company's growth for many years. For this reason, Amazon has expanded its recruitment and expanded its logistics network to 2 times.

As the epidemic gradually subsided and consumers returned to shop in physical stores, Amazon launched a cost reduction review, closed physical stores and Amazon Care and other business units, then fully froze manpower, and announced large-scale layoffs at the end of the year.

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