The news comes a day after the e-commerce behemoth said it would lay off hundreds of employees in its streaming and studio business, as tech companies extend their massive job cuts over the past two years into 2024.
A former Amazon employee claims the company has tried to re-hire him four times since he was arbitrarily laid off, but he refuses to join the organisation again.
Tech layoffs: The layoffs at Amazon have left a trail of displaced employees seeking new opportunities.
The woman has been re-hired at Amazon, joining the Social Marketing team, her old team, in a new role as a Product Marketing Manager.
A software development engineer has revealed how he found a new job with a salary hike after being laid off from Amazon earlier this year.
'There is never a pleasant way to share this sort of news,' Amazon Games Vice President Christoph Hartmann wrote in an internal memo.
Amazon layoffs: The former employee said that the people he met during his 9-month stint are now helping him 'through these unfavorable circumstances'.
Most of the job eliminations by the company primarily impacted its stores and device businesses as well as human resources teams
The widespread tech gloom is affecting thousands of families around the world.
Tom Mboya Opiyo wrote about his experience in a LinkedIn post, sharing that he had sold his house and cars in preparation for a relocation that never panned out thanks to Amazon layoffs.
Amazon will cut as many as 18,000 jobs, amid a series of mass layoffs across the tech sector.
The Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate has complained that the "voluntary separation policy" offered by the e-commerce giant to its employees was illegal
Twenty thousand employees are the equivalent of about 6 percent of corporate staff, and about 1.3 percent of Amazon's total 1.5 million-strong workforce including global distribution center and hourly workers.
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The employees' body has alleged that Amazon employees are being forced to quit voluntarily, and sought an inquiry into the matter.
Amazon plans to cut as many as 10,000 jobs, close on the heels of the mass layoffs at Twitter and Meta.
Amazon layoffs: Many Indian employees of Amazon in the US have taken to LinkedIn, desperately looking for new jobs.