Amazon Layoffs: E-Commerce Company Lays Off Again, About 100 People Lost Their Jobs

Amazon Layoffs: E-commerce company lays off again, about 100 people lost their jobs

Amazon Layoffs: Amazon has once again lost jobs. This time the layoffs have taken place in its books division, which also includes the Goodreads review site and the Kindle unit. According to a Reuters report, the Seattle-based retailer says that a little less than 100 employees have been affected by this layoff. This step has been taken to improve efficiency and streamline operations. The layoffs were first reported by Business Insider. “As part…

Amazon fires people working at Goodreads and the Kindle division

Last month, Amazon fired 100 people working in the Kindle division, and a couple of days ago, it fired over 100 more. This includes people from the Goodreads social book discovery website. CEO Andy Jassy is undertaking an initiative to reduce what he has described as an excess of bureaucracy at the company, including by reducing the number of managers. “As part of our ongoing work to make our teams and programs operate more efficiently, and to b…