The wave of workforce layoffs in Silicon Valley has reached Amazon.
While Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, undertook extensive layoffs and Mark Zuckerberg had to console the laid-off employees with some flexibility and gentleness, the news of widespread layoffs at Amazon symbolizes the seriousness of extensive workforce reductions in the tech sector in the United States.
The number of employees being laid off from Amazon will reach ten thousand, and this comes as Jeff Bezos, alongside announcing the layoffs at his key company, declared that he will donate a large portion of his wealth to various philanthropic causes. His interviews about donating his wealth were broadcast simultaneously with the news of the layoffs.
Elon Musk has had one of the ugliest and darkest dealings with the workforce this year at Twitter. The firing of employees without prior notice and the extremely unpleasant and messy process of their removal has sparked a lot of criticism.