Singapore not spared as Amazon retrenches 9,000 workers; employees 'abruptly cut off from work terminals'

The lay-offs in Singapore are part of a retrenchment exercise announced in March that is expected to affect 9,000 employees. - The Straits Times/ANN

SINGAPORE, April 30 (The Straits Times/ANN): Amazon started laying off employees in its cloud services division since Wednesday as part of a retrenchment exercise that is expected to affect 9,000 employees, and those from the Singapore office were not spared.

The exercise, which was announced in March, comes on the heels of layoffs that cut 18,000 jobs between November 2022 and January – the largest round of retrenchments in the history of the retail giant.