January 4, 2023Written by Andy Jassy
As I shared back in November, (click here) as part of our annual planning process for 2023, leaders across the company have been working with their teams and looking at their workforce levels, investments they want to make in the future, and prioritizing what matters most to customers and the long-term health of our businesses. This year’s review has been more difficult given the uncertain economy and that we’ve hired rapidly over the last several years. In November, we communicated the hard decision to eliminate a number of positions across our Devices and Books businesses, and also announced a voluntary reduction offer for some employees in our People, Experience, and Technology (PXT) organization. I also shared that we weren’t done with our annual planning process and that I expected there would be more role reductions in early 2023.
Today, I wanted to share the outcome of these further reviews, which is the difficult decision to eliminate additional roles. Between the reductions we made in November and the ones we’re sharing today, we plan to eliminate just over 18,000 roles. Several teams are impacted; however, the majority of role eliminations are in our Amazon Stores and PXT organizations....
The US Department of Labor needs to review Amazon's recruitment and hiring methods. I am retired from a profession that allowed me to raise my family. I still perform some work as allowed by the Social Security Administration. I became fully retired this year and I can earn more money now if I care to, so when I received an invitation from Amazon to work from home I was curious. It turned out to be one of the most invasive processes I have ever witnessed. It was so invasive I discontinued the online document because I also had to commit to the company any and all information they could find. There was also a commitment to the company as if I were to pledge my dying love to Jeff Bezos.
I am fully tired of giant plutocratic companies that allow their owners to fly rockets to outer space. That is the function of the USA government and not every plutocrat on the planet. If they want to fly then commit to an astronaut program that has allegiance to the USA and not Wall Street.
For the past two decades plutocracy has been allowed by the Republicans for the sake of staying in power. There is nothing wrong with our democracy, there is a lot wrong with the politics of the Republicans. It is corruption. It is very easy to buy Republicans or a place in their party, just bring your checkbook.
But, as to Amazon, if they are reducing the size of their work force I congratulate them, at least 180 thousand people will not have to suffer the rigors of one of the most perverse employers in the country. I mean the idea van drivers can't look to their left or right because the company statistics say that causes accidents is bizarre and idiotic. Their employees are mostly unhappy at work. It is little difference than Walmart in their expunging the disabled as greeters while being willing to take their money as consumers.
All those companies are nothing but trouble because they are looking at their return to stockholders and not the well being of their employee shareholders. Stockholders don't care about the employees or their families who are equal if not greater shareholders in the success of the company. That's right, if these companies lost every American as an employee tomorrow with no one to replace them, they would shutter their doors and Main Street would be all the better for it.
It was amazing to watch how China removed COVID restrictions while telling their restless people to go back to work, while predicting a million dead of this wave in China. IT WAS THE NEXT DAY THAT WALL STREET NUMBERS RETURNED TO THE POSITIVE SIDE OF PROFIT. Amazing. Chinese die and no one on Wall Street can give a dam. All Xi had to do was turn the key for Wall Street and China was golden again.
So, how much is a million Chinese worth to Wall Street? Zero. Zero dollars because they stood in the way of stockholder returns.
I am more than pleased to see these companies reduce their workforce because it means the USA economy again belongs to the people and we are on the right path to a balance between profitability and the workers quality of life.
Death to plutocracy, it is a killer.
At 6:20 pm an Amazon ad to sucker punch you hit my email. “New Amazon Jobs (Remote).” DO NOT DO IT!
