{"id":6290,"date":"2025-10-28T20:16:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T20:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/internet-aws-amazon-layoffs\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T20:16:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T20:16:52","slug":"internet-aws-amazon-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/internet-aws-amazon-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"After Bringing Down Internet, Amazon Announces Biggest Mass Firing in Its History"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Just a few days after taking out half of the world\u2019s internet<\/a>, Amazon is undergoing the biggest layoffs in the corporation\u2019s 31 year history.<\/p>\n

Reuters<\/em> was the first to alert workers<\/a> that the job cuts were expected to start Tuesday, affecting over 30,000 corporate roles. Sure enough, starting early Tuesday morning, thousands of workers for Amazon Web Services (AWS) \u2014 yes, the infrastructure-providing part of the company that brought down everything from Fortnite<\/a> to Bored Ape NFTs<\/a> when it failed spectacularly last week \u2014 began receiving texts and emails bearing the bad news.<\/p>\n

Overall, 30,000 workers is just a drop in the bucket for Amazon\u2019s workforce of 1.5 million of warehouse workers, drivers, and other blue collar roles. But as far as corporate employees go, that number accounts for a brutal 10 percent. Per sources who spoke to Reuters<\/em>, the massive firing spree is a corrective measure meant to compensate for over-hiring during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

Beth Galetti, Amazon\u2019s senior vice president of HR, posted a memo<\/a> addressed to all Amazon employees earlier today in which she claimed only 14,000 roles were being slashed. \u201cSome may ask why we\u2019re reducing roles when the company is performing well,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat we need to remember is that the world is changing quickly,\u201d she continued. \u201cThis generation of AI is the most transformative technology we\u2019ve seen since the Internet, and it\u2019s enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before (in existing market segments and altogether new ones).\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Former Amazon employees took to Blind, an anonymous messaging board only available to workers who register with their workplace email, to vent their frustrations. \u201cI got laid off and I am pregnant. What should I do?\u201d one post read. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy husband has been looking for a job since he got laid off a few months ago. He didn\u2019t take COBRA and we were on my insurance plan,\u201d the Amazon worker wrote, referring to the group benefits package<\/a> available to some employees who experience layoffs. (Amazon has previously been sued for intimidating employees<\/a> out of taking the COBRA benefits.) <\/p>\n

\u201cNow we are both out of work, it\u2019s not looking good,\u201d the poster continued.<\/p>\n

One former AWS employee whose role was previously eliminated told Futurism<\/em> the typical \u201clayoff playbook\u201d at Amazon is 90 days to find an internal job, followed by three months of severance pay. <\/p>\n

Some speculated that the timing of the cuts has more to do with Amazon\u2019s upcoming quarterly earnings report<\/a>, expected on October 30. Layoffs of this size are sure to boost Amazon\u2019s future earnings projections, and thus its stock price<\/a>. (Sure enough, Amazon stocks were up around 1.25 percent on Tuesday.)<\/p>\n

\u201cJust received an email that my role has been terminated at 3am PST,\u201d an AWS worker with over five years at the company wrote. \u201cI know it\u2019s coming but still need time to process.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGot laid off today. Work-life balance had been rough for a while \u2014 just yesterday I joked that it wouldn\u2019t be the worst thing if I got laid off,\u201d sighed another. \u201cI take it back. This uncertainty doesn\u2019t feel nice at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

More on Amazon: <\/strong>Amazon Reveals Smart Glasses That Effectively Turn Its Delivery Drivers Into Cyborg Drones<\/a><\/em>
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