Amazon, Salesforce jettison jobs in latest tech worker purge


The Salesforce logo at Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, California. Cloud computing giant Salesforce on Jan 4, 2023, said it was shedding about 10% of its employees, or just under 8,000 jobs, and closing several offices. With the plan, Salesforce joins other US tech giants including Facebook-owner Meta, Twitter and Amazon that have also imposed job cuts as the world economy heads into a downturn. — AFP

Ecommerce giant Amazon and business software maker Salesforce are the latest US technology companies to announce major job cuts as they prune payrolls that rapidly expanded during the pandemic lockdown.

Amazon said Jan 4 that it will be cutting about 18,000 positions. It’s the largest set of layoffs in the Seattle-based company’s history, although just a fraction of its 1.5 million global workforce.

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