New layoffs at the American digital and distribution giant Amazon. These job cuts are in addition to the wave currently affecting the digital giants.
With our correspondent in Washington, Guillaume Naudin
These are 9,000 additional positions that will be eliminated this spring. They are added to the 18,000 job cuts decided in December and January. Total: 27,000 employees laid off in a few months, which is almost 9% of Amazon’s permanent workforce.
The retail giant had largely benefited from the Covid-19 pandemic and the frenzy of Americans and the rest of the world for online shopping, but the movement has clearly slowed. The group’s management had started by making cuts in less profitable sectors: warehouses, voice assistants, drone delivery projects or automated shops or human resources.
This time, sectors that bring in more money such as online data storage or advertising seem to be affected. Jobs have been cut at Twitch, the recently acquired online streaming service, and work on the office building under construction near Washington has just been suspended.
In the last quarter, Amazon announced almost no profit. Microsoft, Meta and other industry giants have also announced significant job cuts. And Silicon Valley Bank bankruptcythe bank for the new technologies sector, is not an encouraging sign either.