Amazon’s latest round of job cuts are very likely to impact impact the US, UK, and India.
Business Insider, which accessed internal messages on workplace communications app Slack, reported that employees in the three aforementioned geographies had been receiving notifications about the cuts.
Which departments will be hit by the job cuts?
Messages reviewed by Business Insider suggest that the 16,000 job cuts announced on Wednesday will affect several departments within Amazon, ranging from tech services to its retail business.
The publication reported that on the tech side, the company’s Amazon Web Services cloud unit, such as the AI cloud service Bedrock and the cloud data warehouse Redshift, are likely to be hit.
On the retail front, teams such as the Prime subscription service and the last-mile Delivery Experience team will also see jobs slashed.
In addition, the company’s ProServe consulting team is also likely to see cuts.
While the quanta of job cuts in each department is unknown as of now, Business Insider reported that many affected employees who posted to an internal Amazon Slack channel looking for job leads had software engineering roles, suggesting that tech jobs are the ones which have been most adversely impacted.
