<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>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>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></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>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>green-eclipse</author><text>Agreed. I&amp;#x27;m just illustrating that it&amp;#x27;s part of an ongoing pattern at Amazon. Not some new, shocking thing. I&amp;#x27;d expect more in the future.</text></comment>