{"id":2803,"date":"2022-11-15T04:49:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T04:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/?p=2803"},"modified":"2022-11-15T04:49:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T04:49:42","slug":"amazon-plans-to-lay-off-thousands-of-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/?p=2803","title":{"rendered":"Amazon plans to lay off thousands of employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is planning to lay off approximately 10,000 employees in corporate and technology roles beginning this week.<br \/>\nAccording to international media reports, the cuts would be the largest in the company\u2019s history and would primarily impact Amazon\u2019s devices organization, retail division and human resources. The reported layoffs would represent less than 1% of Amazon\u2019s global workforce and 3% of its corporate employees.<br \/>\nThe report follows headcount reductions at other tech firms. Meta announced last week that it\u2019s laying off more than 13% of its staff, or more than 11,000 employees, and Twitter laid off approximately half its workforce in the days following Elon Musk\u2019s $44 billion acquisition of the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is planning to lay off approximately 10,000 employees in corporate and technology roles beginning this week. According to international media reports, the cuts would&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2804,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}