{"id":8511,"date":"2023-01-05T04:39:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T03:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/05\/amazon-to-axe-18000-jobs-citing-economic-uncertainty\/"},"modified":"2023-01-05T04:39:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T03:39:49","slug":"amazon-to-axe-18000-jobs-citing-economic-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/05\/amazon-to-axe-18000-jobs-citing-economic-uncertainty\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon to axe 18,000 jobs citing economic uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon chief points to company\u2019s rapid hiring in recent years while saying  layoffs mainly to hit its brick-and-mortar stores<\/p>\n<p>Amazon has announced it will cut more than 18,000 jobs from its workforce \u2013 the largest set of layoffs in the US company\u2019s history \u2013 while business software maker Salesforce is to cut 8,000 workers in the latest purge of tech jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon cited \u201cthe uncertain economy\u201d and said the e-commerce giant had \u201chired rapidly over the last several years\u201d in making the announcement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/jan\/05\/amazon-to-axe-18000-jobs-citing-economic-uncertainty\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5582fc3118693bafeb5ee23ec68410031ffad1ab\/0_384_5760_3456\/master\/5760.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=571727574b0e3a746a6d93618d95d3a5\" title=\"Amazon to axe 18,000 jobs citing economic uncertainty\" \/>Amazon chief points to company\u2019s rapid hiring in recent years while saying  layoffs mainly to hit its brick-and-mortar stores<br \/>\nAmazon has announced it will cut more than 18,000 jobs from its workforce \u2013 the largest set of layoffs in the US company\u2019s history \u2013 while business software maker Salesforce is to cut 8,000 workers in the latest purge of tech jobs.<br \/>\nAmazon cited \u201cthe uncertain economy\u201d and said the e-commerce giant had \u201chired rapidly over the last several years\u201d in making the announcement on Wednesday. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon chief points to company\u2019s rapid hiring in recent years while saying layoffs mainly to hit its brick-and-mortar stores Amazon has announced it will cut more than 18,000 jobs from its workforce \u2013 the largest set of layoffs in the US company\u2019s history \u2013 while business software maker Salesforce is to cut 8,000 workers in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/05\/amazon-to-axe-18000-jobs-citing-economic-uncertainty\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon to axe 18,000 jobs citing economic uncertainty<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8511"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}