{"id":70070,"date":"2022-11-15T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T07:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=70070"},"modified":"2025-09-07T23:55:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T20:55:45","slug":"media-amazon-to-lay-off-a-record-10000-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/media-amazon-to-lay-off-a-record-10000-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: Amazon to lay off a record 10,000 employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon will cut 10,000 people, about 3% of its corporate staff and 1% of its global workforce. According to informed sources, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/14\/technology\/amazon-layoffs.html\\\"> The New York Times<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The changes will affect, among other things, the recruiting department, the devices organization, and the Alexa voice assistant.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>From April through September, the company ended collaborations with 80,000 specialists; in October it pulled 10,000 vacancies and froze hiring for the next several months.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, as part of a corporate-structure reorganization, the corporation<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/meta-to-cut-more-than-11000-jobs-in-restructuring\"> Meta<\/a> will cut more than 11,000 people (13% of its workforce).<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Roughly half of the employees were laid off by Twitter&#8217;s management after Elon Musk&#8217;s acquisition of the social platform.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, headcount optimizations were also reported at <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/coinbase-cuts-more-than-60-jobs\"> Coinbase<\/a>,  <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/media-crypto-com-cuts-more-than-2000-staff\">Crypto.com<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/media-bitmex-to-lay-off-a-quarter-of-its-staff\"> BitMEX<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/robinhood-lays-off-9-of-staff-as-shares-slump-about-75-after-ipo\">Robinhood<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/gemini-to-cut-staff-by-10-amid-crypto-market-downturn\">Gemini<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitso-lays-off-80-employees\">Bitso<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/blockfi-to-lay-off-a-fifth-of-its-workforce\"> BlockFi<\/a> and the parent company of the Brazilian exchange <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/2tm-group-parent-company-of-mercado-bitcoin-cuts-staff\">Mercado Bitcoin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\\\\\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\u201d\\\\\" target=\\\\\"\u201c_blank\u201d\\\\\" rel=\\\\\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\\\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 crypto news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon will cut 10,000 people, about 3% of its corporate staff and 1% of its global workforce, according to informed sources cited by The New York Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[170,83],"class_list":["post-70070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-amazon","tag-business"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70072,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70070\/revisions\/70072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}