Twitch, the gaming platform Amazon owns, will also see some layoffs as well as Amazon’s PXT organizations, which handle human resources and other functions. This time around, the job cuts will hit profitable areas for the company including its cloud computing unit AWS and its burgeoning advertising business. The short answer is that not all of the teams were done with their analyses in the late fall and rather than rush through these assessments without the appropriate diligence, we chose to share these decisions as we’ve made them so people had the information as soon as possible,” Jassy said. “Some may ask why we didn’t announce these role reductions with the ones we announced a couple months ago. He said Amazon will still hire in some strategic areas. In the memo, Jassy said the second phase of the company’s annual planning process - which determined what areas of the business to trim - completed this month and led to the additional job cuts. Yet the company’s workforce doubled during the pandemic, however, during a hiring surge across almost the entire tech sector. The job cuts would mark the second largest round of layoffs in the company’s history, adding to the 18,000 employees the company said it would lay off in January.

NEW YORK (AP) - Amazon plans to eliminate 9,000 more jobs in the next few weeks, CEO Andy Jassy said in a memo to staff on Monday.

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