Earlier today Amazon unveiled its latest delivery drone upgrades, showing how technology could make the company more effective and efficient in the future. At the same time, the company is telling employees in its less profitable departments to begin looking elsewhere for work as major staffing cuts could be coming. Those layoffs may have already started. According to a Linkedin post by former Amazon Robotics AI Software Engineer Jamie Zhang, the entire Amazon Robotics team is now gone. Zhang, who had been with the company for 18 months, described his own job loss as surprising.
Other less profitable departments that could be facing the ax include the ones responsible for Alexa, Amazon’s home assistant. Alexa is part of Amazon’s devices department, which The Wall Street Journal claims has operating losses of over $5 billion per year. The company is allegedly debating adding new capabilities to Alexa after accepting the majority of customers only use the smart assistant’s more basic functions. Overall company losses amounted to around $3 billion so far this year, and the retail giant’s stock price has also taken a significant hit. Exactly how many of its 10,000 employees will be on the way out is currently unknown, but it’s looking like Amazon is the latest big tech company that will be forced to restructure massively.
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