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I’ve heard multiple numbers for this layoff from unofficial sources. Does anyone think Amazon was trying to identify a leak by letting internal parties know abo

• mv4 1y ago
  are you talking about the difference is size (15,000 vs 30,000) and affected orgs?
• sangel 1y ago
  My totally uneducated guess is that they leak exaggerated numbers on purpose to make the real numbers look less bad in comparison. The idea being that a few days before the official news everyone is talking about a potential 30 or 40K people layoff. Then, when the official news come out and state that they are laying off 14K people, it sounds less dramatic (in relative terms). This makes people (who are not affected by this) to feel like the news were overblown and are not as significant.
  • _fizz_buzz_ 1y ago
    Or it could have been internal politics. Amazon top management set the goal to cut 30k and after internal discussions with lower management they come up with 14k positions that can actually be cut.
• gdulli 1y ago
  Leaks are intentional. There's a reason they always happen and always in the same way.