They probably are not broadly lying about AI replacement being the main factor.
Turns out… Amazon runs AWS for businesses… and also Amazon.com the online retail megastore and logistics service.
Every other business is laying people off?
Less B2B AWS demand.
Everyone is now unemployed?
Less consumer demand, downsize all aspects of Amazon.com storefront and logistics.
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I’d actually argue that any serious modern economist should be paying attention to AWS and other enterprise level, scalable server solutions…
… That’s a leading indicator of at this point, of broad economic conditions.
If AWS and similar departments at similar companies… stop expanding so much, when the rest of the economy seems to be doing ok?
Yeah, that means growth in demand for basically core business software infrastructure is stalling, and it’ll take 6 to 18 months to filter through to the rest of the economy and become apparent in other metrics.
Errorcode7@programming.dev 1 day ago
Amazon has 1.5 million employees. I’m sure corporate side is a small chunk of that but a giant company cutting a few hundred doesn’t sound like big news?
VeryInterestingTable@jlai.lu 1 day ago
Of which probably about 90% are minimum wage employees. Cutting a few hundreds that are not minimum wage employees does make a difference. Is the goal to reach 99.99% minimum wage work force? I’m sure it is.
A good company should be reducing the % of minimum wage employees instead while maintaining good profit. But I guess double digit growth is more important.
Amazon is one of the biggest company on the planet what they do, no only sets precedents but also is a visible exemple of what is “successful” and morally “acceptable”.
SippyCup@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Amazon! Job cuts! Recession! Scary!!