Amazon to lay off 9,000 just weeks after firing 18,000 staffers: ‘This is best for the company’

Amazon will shed some 9,000 jobs just weeks after it laid off around 18,000 employees, the Seattle-based e-commerce giant told its workers Monday.

Andy Jassy, the CEO of the $1 trillion firm, circulated a memo announcing the latest layoffs will impact 3% of its 282,000-strong corporate workforce.

“This was a difficult decision, but one that we think is best for the company long term,” Jassy wrote in the memo. ---More...