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Seattle Times likes to give Amazon bad press. Seattle has enough other tech companies to absorb a few hundred jobs. Companies routinely end up over-hiring or
by lev99 9y ago
Seattle Times likes to give Amazon bad press. Seattle has enough other tech companies to absorb a few hundred jobs. Companies routinely end up over-hiring or having redundant positions. It appears that they are laying off less than 10% of their Seattle staff, while they are still expanding the amount of office space they occupy in Seattle.
This seems like no big deal for Seattle and Amazon.
- myroon5 9y ago"less than 10% of their Seattle staff" even less than 1%
- lev99 9y agoThe problem is "a few hundred" is an undefined number. 400 would be about 1%, which would be fairly reported as a few hundred. My ceiling number is very high, but I would believe more than 1% are let go.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoDoes amazon really employ 40,000 people in its corporate headquarters? Microsoft does, but it has a much much bigger campus.
- foota 9y agoIt doesn't really, maybe by footprint on the ground, but Amazon has lots of tall buildings.
- wickawic 9y agoYes they do, and the math works out. About 8k people work in their two belltown towers alone.
- mrep 9y agoYes according to [0]. Just look at their campus map [1]. It is massive and some of those buildings are dozens of stories tall. [0]: https://www.amazon.com/p/feature/4kc8ovgnyf996yn https://www.amazon.com/p/feature/4kc8ovgnyf996yn [1]: https://static.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/7ef8dbd0-9436-11e7-b343-b7c75282038d-960x960.jpg https://static.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/7...
- tyingq 9y agoHaving to enact a layoff to deal with 400 people when you already have a reputation about being ruthless with "up or out" is interesting though. As I understand it, it's not hard to fire deadwood at Amazon. So why risk the PR hit with "layoffs"? Seems curious.