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This is a silly way to look at it. A large number of the million+ headcount is warehouse. This layoff impacts corporate workers only, so it's a much higher pe
by tempsy 4y ago
This is a silly way to look at it.
A large number of the million+ headcount is warehouse.
This layoff impacts corporate workers only, so it's a much higher percentage of total corporate workers.
- count 4y agoHR staff at the warehouse are the same 'corporate' employees as the box lifters at the warehouse...
- tempsy 4y agoI’ll assume you know what I mean and just want to argue lol. Majority of Amazon workers are essentially blue collar jobs. This primarily affects salaried corporate workers in towers in Seattle etc. So the impact to those types of jobs is clearly more than 1%.
- twawaaay 4y agoI dislike your hypocrisy. You call my view silly, and at the same time you make distinction between corporate and warehouse workers as if these were two separate classes of people presuming firing warehouse workers was not a big deal but corporate is. Amazon employs 1.5M people total and I don't care if somebody works in a warehouse or an office. They all have their lives to continue and families to feed.
- twelve40 4y agothere is no hypocrisy, here is the deal: I hate it when manufacturing jobs get cut. I hate it when warehousing jobs get cut. But these numbers do not directly relate to what happens in my field, so in order to understand what happens in my field, these numbers must be considered separately.
- midoridensha 4y agoDoes HN have articles about companies like FedEx or Walmart doing layoffs? No, because those are out of the field for readers here.