Amazon starts layoffs in white collar divisions
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Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) began acting this week upon previously signaled layoffs impacting thousands of workers in total, Seeking Alpha has learned.
According to a memo provided to Seeking Alpha, Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky and human resources head Beth Galetti informed scores of employees about their redundancies as part of a plan to reduce total employee headcount by about 9,000. 
âBoth the size of our business and the size of our team have grown significantly over recent years, driven by customer demand for the cloud and for the unique value AWS provides. This growth has come quickly as weâve moved as fast as we could to build what customers have needed,â Selipsky wrote in a note to the AWS team. âGiven this rapid growth, as well as the overall business and macroeconomic climate, it is critical that we focus on identifying and putting our resources behind our top prioritiesâthose things that matter most to customers and that will move the needle for our business. In many cases this means team members are shifting the projects, initiatives or teams on which they work; however, in other cases it has resulted in these role eliminations.â
Galettiâs letter covered the same dynamic, pointing to CEO Andy Jassyâs prior indications that the PXT business would see significant staff cuts. The new layoffs add to hundreds of employees let go from gaming and Twitch operations in recent weeks.
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