Amazon to lay off 9,000 staff in second round of job cuts

Many of the 5,000 staff at Amazon’s operations in Ireland include software and network engineers in addition to warehouse workers in the company’s fulfillment centre in Dublin.

CEO Andy Jassy said the company had added substantial amount of staff in the past few years, but the uncertain economy has forced it to choose cost and headcount cuts. Pic: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Amazon is the latest Big Tech firm to announce a second round layoffs amid growing economic uncertainty as it plans to cut an additional 9,000 more staff from its global workforce.

These redundancies will largely impact the company’s cloud services, advertising and Twitch units.