The affected positions are in largely technical positions.
giant's mass layoffs and a broader company reorganization, which reportedly could reach up to 10,000 workers worldwide.
According to a notice obtained by SFGATE Wednesday — which companies that conduct layoffs have to file as part of California's Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act — 263 employees across six of Amazon’s Sunnyvale offices are getting laid off. In addition, 53 employees in a Southern California office will be laid off.
The affected positions are largely technical, including software and hardware engineers and data scientists, according to the WARN notice., Senior Vice President of Devices & Services Dave Limp said that the layoffs would affect Amazon’s devices and services teams, which work on the megacompany’s Kindle e-readers, Echo smart speaker devices and Fire tablets.
Amazon, like many other tech giants, was hit particularly hard by post-pandemic economic headwinds — with its core e-commerce business proving to be incredibly lucrative amid COVID-19 but faltering as restrictions loosened up nationwide. AsThese layoffs follow large-scale layoffs at
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