Amazon confirmed on Wednesday it had cut what it said were a small number of jobs, primarily in its Stores unit which oversees the main e-commerce website.
Business Insider earlier reported the layoffs. The promotion started on Tuesday and runs through Wednesday, offering varying discounts. The layoffs to its retail unit coincide with one of Amazon’s biggest shopping days, which it calls Prime Big Deal Days. The internal Slack channel suggested a number of divisions within Stores were involved, including customer service and selling partner services, and possibly other units across Amazon. Employees in the US, India and the UK were among those getting pink slips.
Because the company overhired during the pandemic, jeff Bezos, the founder and executive chairman of Amazon, said in a Fox News interview aired Wednesday, that continued job cuts have been necessary. Amazon let go fewer than 1,000 white-collar workers, a person familiar with the matter said.
