Amazon layoffs: Internal messages reveal what Amazon HR head’s email ‘didn’t give details of’

Amazon began notifying 16,000 corporate employees on Janauary 28 that their jobs have been eliminated. HR chief Beth Galetti’s company-wide memo spoke of “reducing layers and removing bureaucracy,” but conveniently sidestepped one crucial detail—which teams were actually getting the axe.Internal Slack messages and executive memos obtained by Business Insider now fill in those gaps, revealing that the cuts are sweeping through both the company’s prized cloud computing division and core retail operations. Many of the affected employees who posted to internal channels seeking job leads held software engineering roles.

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