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Amazon<\/a>.com Inc on Wednesday said it has laid off some employees in its devices<\/a> group as a person familiar with the company said it still targeted around 10,000 job cuts, including in its retail division and human resources.
The announcement, Amazon's first since media outlets including Reuters reported its layoff plans on Monday, heralded a dramatic shift for a company known for its job creation and added shape to the latest dismissals befalling the technology sector.
Amazon executive Dave Limp in a blog post said the company had decided to consolidate teams in its devices unit, which popularized speakers that consumers command through speech. It notified the employees it cut on Tuesday.
\"We continue to face an unusual and uncertain macroeconomic environment,\" he said. \"In light of this, we've been working over the last few months to further prioritize what matters most to our customers and the business.\"
Plans, still in flux, to eliminate around 10,000 roles through reductions in more units would amount to about a 3% cut in Amazon's roughly 300,000-person corporate workforce. The company has offered voluntary buyouts to some human-resources staff, the source familiar with Amazon's job-cut plans said.
For years, the online retailer aimed to make Alexa, the voice assistant that powers gadgets it sells, ubiquitous and present to place any shopping order, even though it was unclear how widely users have embraced it for more complex tasks than checking the news or weather.
A project inspired by a talking computer in science fiction show Star Trek, Alexa had garnered headcount that grew to 10,000 people by 2019.
At the time, Amazon touted sales of more than 100 million Alexa devices, a figure it has not since refreshed publicly. Founder Jeff Bezos<\/a> later said the company often sold Alexa devices at a discount and sometimes below cost.
While Amazon has toiled to encode intelligent answers to any question Alexa might expect from users, Alphabet Inc's Google and Microsoft<\/a> Corp-backed OpenAI have had breakthroughs in chatbots that could respond like a human without any hand holding.
Dozens of individuals posted on the professional networking site LinkedIn to say Amazon had laid them off, among them people who claimed to work on privacy for Alexa and software for the company's cloud gaming service Luna.
Following the layoff news, shares pared losses and closed down about 2%.
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The news follows Facebook's parent Meta Platforms Inc announcement last week to eliminate 11,000 jobs, on top of layoffs at Twitter Inc<\/a>, Microsoft, Snap Inc<\/a> and others.
For Amazon, the cuts sharply contrast with efforts months ago to double its base pay ceiling to compete more aggressively for talent.
In September last year it had marketed 55,000 corporate roles globally during a career fair, an increase dwarfed only by hiring in Amazon's fulfillment centers. In short order, the online bookseller that Bezos envisioned on a road trip not 30 years before had become America's second-largest private employer, with more than 1.5 million workers including warehouse staff.
The turn has been abrupt. The retailer is now responding to sales that could rise as little as 2% this holiday season, compared with a 38% increase two years ago. Amazon's chief financial officer told reporters last month that consumers had tighter budgets in the face of inflation and higher fuel costs.
Its cloud-computing division, a profit engine for the company, likewise has increased revenue more slowly quarter after quarter in the past year, when adjusted for foreign exchange.
Andy Jassy, who ascended to the role of CEO in 2021, has focused on cutting costs and stemming Amazon's 43% share-price drop this year to date.
Under his tenure Amazon announced the end of its virtual healthcare service for employers and pruning of its much-hyped autonomous sidewalk delivery program. It froze incremental corporate hiring as well.
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亚马逊com . n:行情)周三表示,它已经解雇一些员工设备集团公司一位知情人士表示,仍有针对性的削减大约10000个工作岗位,包括在其零售部门和人力资源。
宣布,亚马逊的以来的首次媒体包括路透社报道其裁员计划周一,预示着戏剧性的转变而闻名的公司创造就业和形状添加到最新解雇失手的技术领域。
亚马逊总裁戴夫一瘸一拐地在一篇博客文章中说,公司已决定巩固团队在其设备部门,推广扬声器,消费者通过语音命令。它通知员工周二下调。
“我们继续面对一个不寻常的和不确定的宏观经济环境中,”他说。”根据这一点,我们已经在过去的几个月里工作,进一步优化最重要的为我们的客户和业务。”
计划,仍在不断变化,消除约10000角色通过减少更多的单位也将达到削减3%的亚马逊公司员工约300000人。公司提供了自愿收购一些人力资源人员,知情人士透露,亚马逊的裁员计划。
多年来,在线零售商旨在使Alexa的语音助理产品销售,无处不在,任何地方购物秩序,尽管目前尚不清楚如何广泛用户已经接受它比检查新闻或天气更复杂的任务。乐动扑克
项目在科幻小说的灵感来自一个说电脑显示星际迷航,Alexa曾获得人数增长到2019年的10000人。
当时,亚马逊吹捧的销售超过1亿Alexa设备,自刷新图还没有公开。创始人杰夫·贝佐斯后来表示,该公司经常出售Alexa设备折价,有时甚至低于成本。
虽然亚马逊劳作编码智能回答任何问题Alexa可能期望从用户、字母公司的谷歌和微软Corp-backed OpenAI已经突破聊天机器人能像人类反应没有牵手。
几十个人的职业社交网站LinkedIn上公布说亚马逊了,其中声称工作的人对隐私的Alexa和软件公司的云游戏服务Luna。
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对亚马逊来说,大幅削减与努力几个月前的两倍基本工资上限更积极争夺人才。
去年9月在全球已销售55000企业角色在招聘会中,增加只有招聘在亚马逊完成中心相形见绌。,在线书商,贝佐斯设想在公路旅行不是30年前已经成为美国第二大私人雇主,有超过150万名工人包括仓库工作人员。
的突然。现在零售商应对销售可能上升2%这个假期,比两年前增加了38%。亚马逊的首席财务官上个月告诉记者,消费者在面对通货膨胀和紧缩的预算较高的燃料成本。
其云计算业务,为公司利润引擎,同样增加了收入更慢季度在过去的一年中,当调整外汇。
安迪雅西,2021年成为首席执行官的角色,一直专注于削减成本和阻止亚马逊的股价今年下跌43%。
在他的任期内,亚马逊宣布结束虚拟医疗服务雇主和修剪的大肆宣传自动人行道交付计划。它冻结了增量企业招聘。
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