Amazon Employees Fear ‘No One Is Safe’ as Layoffs Roil the Ranks – By Spencer Soper (Bloomberg) / Nov 16, 2022
So wrote an Amazon.com Inc. employee on an internal chat room as the company began the largest round of layoffs in its history. The mood, especially in the hard-hit devices team, reflected the shock and dismay of people more accustomed to growing budgets and moonshots than talk of recession and austerity.
Devices chief Dave Limp, in a note to his team on Wednesday, said the firings pained him. He pledged severance payments for people who can’t find other jobs inside the company. But for many recipients his note was little consolation, and some wondered why Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy, considered by some a gentler touch than predecessor Jeff Bezos, hadn’t addressed the troops the way Mark Zuckerberg did when announcing job cuts at Meta Platforms Inc.
Lacking clarity from managers, employees are seeking clues from one another about which team or worker could be the next one cut. Those fearing the ax are asking those who have been fired to describe subject lines in emails from human resources or other warning signs. Some workers complained that they couldn’t concentrate fearing they might be let go at any minute.
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