Amazon cuts nearly 1,000 jobs, retail employees in India impacted

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    "title": "Amazon cuts nearly 1,000 jobs, retail employees in India impacted - India Today",
    "excerpt": "Amazon has conducted another round of layoffs globally. This time, the company said, it cut fewer than 1,000 jobs, largely in its retail teams across multiple countries, including India, the US, and the UK. These job cuts are part of Amazon’s broader layoffs that are expected to impact about 30,000 jobs globally . As per reports from Reuters and Business Insider, employees of Amazon’s Stores business, which oversees the e-commerce website, were impacted by the layoffs. \"We've adjusted parts of our Stores business because we believe this structure will better enable us to deliver on our priorities,\" an Amazon spokesperson told Reuters. Though the company did not give an exact number for those impacted. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos aid in a Fox News interview aired on Wednesday that the continuing job cuts were necessary because the company had overhired during the pandemic. \"People were staying home and they were ordering, and it was an incredible, stressful period for us, by the way,” he said. The layoffs come right at the start of Amazon’s sale season on its e-commerce platform. In India, the Amazon Great Indian Festival sale began on October 7 for Prime members, and now is available for all users. Globally, the company also kicked off the Prime Big Deal Days sale on October 6. On Tuesday, reports said, the employees had received emails notifying them that their roles had been...",
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