Redundancies to take place mostly in cloud services, advertising and Twitch units
Amazon is to cut another 9,000 jobs across its global business, mostly in its cloud services, advertising and Twitch livestreaming units, the internet retailer announced on Monday.
Its chief executive, Andy Jassy, said in a letter to workers that the company had added substantial amount of staff in the past few years, but the uncertain economy has forced it to choose cost and headcount cuts.
At the start of the year Amazon announced it had expanded has staff-cutting plans to affect more than 18,000 workers.
