Layoffs reach Amazon staff after years of growth
Layoffs reach Amazon staff after years of growth
Layoffs reach Amazon staff after years of growth, Many companies were forced to cut jobs in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, but this was not the case with Amazon. The e-commerce giant embarked on an unprecedented global hiring spree in 2020 when, according to results published by the company itself, it created 500,000 new jobs. In 2021, it added another 300,000 employees to its global workforce, adding to its already sizeable workforce. However, as the economic outlook deteriorated and cost pressures began to mount in 2022, the company’s hiring streak of the past decade came to an abrupt end.
With the hiring freeze and layoffs spreading like wildfire in the broader tech industry, Amazon also cut its global headcount in the first six months of this year. At the end of June, the global workforce of the world’s largest online retailer, including part-time employees but excluding temporary and freelance workers, was 1.52 million people, 85,000 less than at the end of 2021.
Layoffs aside, Amazon last Thursday reported better-than-estimated second-quarter revenue and an optimistic forecast for the current quarter. The CEO of the company, Andy Jassy, was pleased with the evolution. “Despite continued inflationary pressures in fuel, energy and transportation costs, we are making progress on the more controllable costs we benchmarked last quarter, in particular by improving the productivity of our distribution network,” he said in the earnings release. of the company.
Amazon enters the ‘top 15’ of companies with the most employees in Spain
The company, which has been in Spain for 11 years, plans to double its workforce in two years. It plans to create 3,000 permanent positions in 2021 and reach 15,000 workers
The Amazon earthquake continues to make itself felt in Spain. The technology giant strongly accelerates its hiring rate in the country to continue gaining positions and take advantage of the strong pull of electronic commerce and cloud computing, especially with the Covid-19 pandemic, which has caused changes in habits in the way of buying and working for individuals and companies. The company announced yesterday that it plans to create 3,000 permanent jobs in Spain this year, raising its permanent workforce to 15,000 workers.
The figure means doubling its workforce in the country in two years, since at the end of 2019 it had 7,000 employees in Spain, and raising it by 25% in just one year because after creating 5,000 permanent jobs in 2020, it ended that year with a permanent workforce of 12,000 workers.
With the new data in hand, the company would enter the top 15 of the companies that have the most employees in Spain, according to the ranking prepared by Informa in 2019. A position where it would rub shoulders with Prosegur, Ferrovial Services, or Iberia, which adds 16,000 employees including Iberia Express. What it does seem that it can position itself at the head is in job creation, since so far this year no company has announced plans to hire as many permanent professionals in Spain as it does.
The new positions include, according to the company, all kinds of profiles and training levels, from warehouse positions to software developers and engineers, business managers, data scientists, and machine learning, as well as cloud experts and architecture architects. solutions that work on Amazon Web Services (AWS).