<story><title>Amazon is said to plan to lay off thousands of employees</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/technology/amazon-layoffs.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oceanplexian</author><text>Amazon has something like 100k corporate employees, and their URA targets force managers to PIP approximately 6% of the corporate employees every year, so going from 6% to 10% isn’t exactly a massive change.</text></item><item><author>mjr00</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a big difference between reducing the number of hourly workers (warehouse, drivers) and cutting 10,000 corporate jobs.</text></item><item><author>green-eclipse</author><text>This is just the latest round of cuts at Amazon: &amp;quot;From April through September, it reduced head count by almost 80,000 people, primarily shrinking its hourly staff through high attrition.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Also: &amp;quot;Amazon froze hiring in several smaller teams in September. In October, it stopped filling more than 10,000 open roles in its core retail business. Two weeks ago, it froze corporate hiring across the company, including its cloud computing division, for the next few months.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mjr00</author><text>Employees who are PIP&amp;#x27;d are &lt;i&gt;replaced&lt;/i&gt;, though. The positions themselves still exist. This is cutting 10k &lt;i&gt;positions&lt;/i&gt; if I&amp;#x27;m interpreting correctly, so it&amp;#x27;s really going from 0% to 4%. It may also impact entire teams or business lines.</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon is said to plan to lay off thousands of employees</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/technology/amazon-layoffs.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oceanplexian</author><text>Amazon has something like 100k corporate employees, and their URA targets force managers to PIP approximately 6% of the corporate employees every year, so going from 6% to 10% isn’t exactly a massive change.</text></item><item><author>mjr00</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a big difference between reducing the number of hourly workers (warehouse, drivers) and cutting 10,000 corporate jobs.</text></item><item><author>green-eclipse</author><text>This is just the latest round of cuts at Amazon: &amp;quot;From April through September, it reduced head count by almost 80,000 people, primarily shrinking its hourly staff through high attrition.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Also: &amp;quot;Amazon froze hiring in several smaller teams in September. In October, it stopped filling more than 10,000 open roles in its core retail business. Two weeks ago, it froze corporate hiring across the company, including its cloud computing division, for the next few months.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CydeWeys</author><text>This isn&amp;#x27;t going from 6 to 10% though, this is a one-time reduction of 10% on top of the normal 6%.</text></comment>