Amazon set to slash another 9,000 jobs

Difficult times: An Amazon worker loads a trolley from a Prime delivery van in Los Angeles, California. The tech giant will have cut 27,000 jobs in recent months, or 9% of its roughly 300,000-strong corporate workforce with the latest round of layoffs. — Reuters

NEW YORK: Amazon.com Inc says it will axe another 9,000 employees, adding to a wave of layoffs that has swept the technology sector as an uncertain economy forces companies to get leaner.

In a remarkable turn for a company that has long touted its job creation, Amazon will have eliminated 27,000 positions in recent months, or 9% of its roughly 300,000-strong corporate workforce.