Amazon to lay off 30,000 employees in largest job cut since 2022
San Francisco: E-commerce giant Amazon is set to lay off around 30,000 corporate employees starting Tuesday as part of a major cost-cutting drive aimed at streamlining operations following extensive overhiring during the Covid-19 pandemic, news agency Reuters reported.
While the figure represents a small fraction of Amazon’s 1.55 million-strong workforce, it amounts to about 10% of its 350,000 corporate staff, making it the company’s largest round of layoffs since 2022–23, when roughly 27,000 positions were cut.
Amazon has carried out smaller rounds of job reductions over the past two years across several divisions, including devices, communications, and podcasting. The latest cuts are expected to impact multiple departments, such as People Experience and Technology (PXT), the company’s human resources arm, as well as operations, devices and services, and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
According to an internal memo, cited by Reuters, Amazon had recently announced a reorganisation within a segment of its PXT unit focused on diversity initiatives. The changes largely involved promotions and role adjustments within the team.
Amazon shares rose 1.2% to $226.97 on Monday. The company is scheduled to report its third-quarter earnings on Thursday.
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Indigo flights chaos: SCR to run special trains to clear passenger rush
Hyderabad (PTI): The South Central Railway on Saturday announced that it would run four special trains to manage the surge in passengers resulting from the large-scale cancellation of IndiGo flights here.
The move comes as flyers face significant disruption and long queues at the airport due to the cancellation.
A press release from the SCR said it is running the special trains to clear the extra rush of passengers to Chennai, Mumbai and Shalimar (Kolkata) from Hyderabad today.
Meanwhile, as many as 43 outbound Indigo flights were cancelled from here on Saturday, Rajiv Gandhi International Airport sources said.
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Similarly, 26 incoming flights are also likely to be cancelled during the day, they said.
The flight cancellations drew ire from passengers, who thronged the IndiGo counters at the airport demanding to know the exact situation.
“This is utter nonsense! Digiyatra done, message received that departure has been rescheduled ahead of the scheduled departure and now upon arriving at Hyderabad airport coming to know at the security checkpoint that Indigo flight is cancelled,” Tarun Singha, former Ministry of Defence spokesperson said in a post on X.
“But the thing is if you don’t shout they do nothing. Example at Hyderabad Airport, there was no staff no flight information for an hour. Then a fellow passenger started shouting on mic and an Indigo staff appeared finally,” a netizen said in a post.
On Friday, when IndiGo cancelled over 1,000 flights from across airports, its CEO Pieter Elbers apologised in a video message for the major inconvenience caused to passengers due to the disruptions.
In the one-way video communication, Elbers also said that the airline was expecting fewer than 1,000 flights on Saturday.
