Singapore not spared as Amazon retrenches 9,000 workers


The lay-offs are part of a retrenchment exercise announced in March that is expected to affect 9,000 employees. - ST

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Amazon started laying off employees in its cloud services division on Wednesday (April 26) as part of a retrenchment exercise that is expected to affect 9,000 employees, and those from the Singapore office were not spared.

The retrenchment exercise, which was announced in March, comes on the heels of lay-offs that cut 18,000 jobs between November 2022 and January – the largest round of firings in the retail giant’s history.

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