{"id":28505,"date":"2023-01-19T00:40:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T05:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.workingteddy.com\/?p=28505"},"modified":"2023-01-19T00:40:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T05:40:22","slug":"amazon-to-lay-off-staff-in-u-s-canada-and-costa-rica-by-end-of-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/amazon-to-lay-off-staff-in-u-s-canada-and-costa-rica-by-end-of-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon to Lay Off Staff in U.S., Canada and Costa Rica by End of Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Amazon<\/strong> <\/span>Inc will cut some jobs in the <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>United States, Canada and Costa Rica<\/strong><\/span> by the end of Wednesday as part of its plan to lay off 18,000 employees, the e-commerce giant said in a memo to staff seen by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The layoffs are the latest in the U.S. technology sector, with companies cutting their bloated workforce and slashing costs to reverse pandemic-era excesses and prepare for a worsening global economy.<\/p>\n<p>The company is terminating 2,300 employees in Seattle and Bellevue, according to an update on the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) site. The U.S. labor law requires companies planning a mass layoff to inform employees 60 days before the closure.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon.com Chief Executive Andy Jassy said earlier this month the cuts, about 6% of the company&#8217;s roughly 300,000 corporate employees, would mostly impact the e-commerce and human resources divisions.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said earlier on Wednesday it would cut about 10,000 jobs and take a $1.2-billion charge.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Inc will cut some jobs in the United States, Canada and Costa Rica by the end of Wednesday as part of its plan to lay off 18,000 employees, the e-commerce giant said in a memo to staff seen by Reuters. The layoffs are the latest in the U.S. technology sector, with companies cutting their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3684,3696,3712,3692],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-business","category-employment","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}