This layoff is around 6% of the firm's approximately 300,000 strong corporate workforce.

Amidst the sound of recession in the world, e-commerce company Amazon has made a big announcement.

Amazon confirmed on Thursday that it is laying off about 18,000 employees (Amazon LayOff).

This process of retrenchment will start from January 18.

According to the note shared by CEO Andy Jassy, ​​the biggest impact of this major layoff will be on the employees working in the e-commerce and human-resources (HR) sections of the company.

This layoff is around 6% of the firm's approximately 300,000 strong corporate workforce.

In such a situation, the concern of the employees working in these sections has increased.

The CEO of Amazon Company said in a statement, 'I expect more cuts in early 2023.

We usually wait to communicate about these consequences until we can speak with the people who are directly affected.

However, this information was leaked externally by one of our partners, we decided it would be best to share this news first.

So that you can hear the details directly.

Our CEO Andy Jassy just shared a message to Amazon employees.

https://t.co/cw5Dl6WY84

— Amazon News (@amazonnews) January 5, 2023

'We intend to communicate with affected employees (or with employee representative bodies where applicable in Europe) from 18 January,' he added.

Earlier in November last year, reports surfaced that the e-commerce giant is targeting to cut its workforce by around 10,000.

'Not much staff needed after the lockdown opens' The

company had also told that during the Corona epidemic, the company had hired many new people.

In such a situation, after the lockdown opened in the countries, there was no need for these people.

In such a situation, the company can now retrench these people on a large scale.

Amazon gives employment to 16 lakh people In the

year 2022, according to the report published in New York Times in November, Amazon gives employment to about 16 lakh people all over the world.

If a total of 18,000 employees lose their jobs, then it will be 12 percent of the total company's employees.

The employees who will be retrenched will be given 24 hours notice and severance pay.

Let us tell you that in the year 2023, the whole world including America is under clouds of recession.

In such a situation, from the year 2022 itself, many companies had started laying off their employees.

This includes the names of many big companies like Twitter, Microsoft, Facebook's parent company Meta.

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