Amazon bungles Wednesday layoff plan with misfired internal email

Amazon on Tuesday appeared to have prematurely alerted Amazon Web Services cloud-computing employees to layoffs planned for Wednesday morning by sending a commiseration email and team-wide meeting invitation hours early.

Reuters reported on ‌Friday that ‌Amazon intended to lay off thousands of corporate employees starting this week. But the company has not yet informed impacted employees, ‌nor has it confirmed the layoff plan.