Amazon to lay off 9,000 more employees

KATHMANDU: Amazon, an American company, plans to lay off another 9,000 workers. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced the company’s intention to lay off 9,000 workers.

He stated in a blog post that the layoffs will affect the company’s cloud services, advertising, and Twitch units.

The announcement comes just a few months after Amazon announced an 18,000-job cut.

Although no decision on which departments’ employees will be laid off has been made, Andy stated that the decision will be implemented by the middle of next April.

Amazon is one of the world’s largest employers, with some 1.5 million employees worldwide.