{"id":8186,"date":"2023-03-21T04:42:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T09:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=8186"},"modified":"2023-03-21T04:42:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T09:42:19","slug":"amazon-deepens-tech-sector-gloom-with-another-9000-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=8186","title":{"rendered":"Amazon deepens tech-sector gloom with another 9,000 layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>March 20 (Reuters) &#8211; Amazon.com Inc&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/companies\/AMZN.O\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">(AMZN.O)<\/a>&nbsp;on Monday said it would axe another 9,000 roles, piling on to a wave of layoffs that has swept the technology sector as an uncertain economy forces companies to get leaner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a remarkable turn for a company that has long touted its job creation, Amazon will have eliminated 27,000 positions in recent months, or 9% of its roughly 300,000-strong corporate workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest cuts focus on Amazon&#8217;s highly-profitable cloud and advertising divisions, once seen as untouchable until economic concerns led business customers to scrutinize their spending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/amazon-la y-off-9000-more-workers-cnbc-2023-03-20\/\">reuters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 20 (Reuters) &#8211; Amazon.com Inc&nbsp;(AMZN.O)&nbsp;on Monday said it would axe another 9,000 roles, piling on to a wave of layoffs that has swept the technology sector as an uncertain economy forces companies to get leaner. In a remarkable turn for a company that has long touted its job creation, Amazon will have eliminated 27,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1155],"tags":[4030],"class_list":["post-8186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-amazon-cuts-27"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8188,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8186\/revisions\/8188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}