> Heck, if you believe that they've always had 5-10% 'unregretted attrition' targets, which I do, and apply it to the whole company, that's 50-100k employees pe

> Heck, if you believe that they've always had 5-10% 'unregretted attrition' targets, which I do, and apply it to the whole company, that's 50-100k employees per year! This came up last time the Amazon layoffs were on HN, but: the URA target (which was 2-6% when I was there) is for people, not positions. That is, the intent is that departments are continually removing their worst performers, but replacing those people as soon as possible. This is an elimination of 17,000 positions who will not be backfilled. Whether you agree with the URA target approach or not (I suspect most do not), 6% URA is fundamentally different from 6% layoffs.