Introduction

Amazon is cutting hundreds of jobs in its Seattle headquarters as part of a broader effort to reduce costs. The company has more than 600,000 employees worldwide, and it employs more than 300,000 people in the United States alone.

Amazon has more than 600,000 employees around the world.

Amazon is a huge company. The company has more than 600,000 employees worldwide, and it’s the second-largest private employer in the U.S., behind Walmart. In addition, Amazon employs more than 575,000 full-time workers and more than 100,000 seasonal workers across the globe.

With its massive workforce, the tech giant has had to make some big decisions when trimming its workforce over time—and this latest round of layoffs is one of those tough choices that may affect thousands of people on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

Amazon is cutting 18,000 workers.

With its latest layoffs, Amazon will be cutting more jobs than in any other tech wave. According to its annual report, the company has more than 600,000 employees worldwide and employs about 563,000 people as of December 2018.

This year’s cuts are also more significant than any other major tech company in recent years for whom we have data – except Microsoft’s unprecedented 100,000 job elimination during its restructuring last year.

The Seattle-based e-commerce giant is downsizing at a faster rate than other tech giants such as Google parent Alphabet Inc., which cut some 15% of its workforce from 2016 through 2019; Facebook Inc., which let go about 10% over that same period; and Apple Inc., which reduced employment by roughly 4%.

Conclusion

The company plans to cut more than 18,000 full-time jobs over the next year, its biggest round of layoffs.