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Amazon Morale Tanks Further as CEO Announces 9,000 More Layoffs

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Employees were already furious over an unexpected return-to-office mandate.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy.
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Amazon employees suffered another body blow on Monday, as CEO Andy Jassy announced plans to lay off 9,000 more workers in the coming weeks. The company had already slashed 18,000 workers in the fall and winter. In a memo announcing the cuts, Jassy wrote that the “overriding tenet of our annual planning this year was to be leaner,” as the business braced for economic uncertainty. Even before this week’s news, Jassy was already unpopular with a sizable faction of Amazon’s staff, after he unexpectedly reversed its flexible remote-work policies in February. Some workers speculated at the time that the reversal was designed to get more people to quit, though Amazon denied that allegation.

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