Amazon appears to have tripped over its own layoff script. On Tuesday, some Amazon Web Services staffers received an email that referenced a new round of layoffs that had occurred—a.
Amazon appears to have tripped over its own layoff script. On Tuesday, some Amazon Web Services staffers received an email that referenced a new round of layoffs that had occurred—a day before the company officially announced it was cutting 16,000 positions. The BBC reports the email that went out erroneously—signed by Colleen Aubrey, a senior VP at AWS—was included with a calendar invite sent by an executive assistant.
It referenced US, Canada, and Costa Rica employees as having been already informed and invited recipients to a Wednesday team-wide meeting; the meeting was rapidly canceled.
