Amazon Job Layoffs 2024. Amazon ended its fourth quarter with 1,525,000 employees, which is slightly up from its third quarter but still below its high of 1.6 million employees back in 2022. Amazon said wednesday it's cutting hundreds of jobs in its cloud computing unit aws as part of a strategic shift.
The ongoing job cuts are being driven by a combination of continued economic uncertainty,. Amazon laid off 18,000 employees in the largest job cut in the company’s history, with most of the layoffs coming in the company’s amazon stores and people.
