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		ctvo on Dec 4, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximate... Amazon's layoffs are a percentage of corporate workforce, not their ~1.5 million warehouse + corporate pool.

robertlagrant on Dec 4, 2023 [–]

Around end of 2022 and start of 2023, Amazon laid off 18k people from their corporate workforce - about 1.2% of their global employee count[0]. That seemed to be the figure the % above was from, as the % from their corporate workforce was 6%.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/05/amazon-to...

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