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The difference between the reaction on HN to the Amazon layoffs and the ASML layoffs is interesting. Perhaps it's driven by the fact that people here are employ
by arjie 9mo ago
The difference between the reaction on HN to the Amazon layoffs and the ASML layoffs is interesting. Perhaps it's driven by the fact that people here are employed by US companies and not by ASML, so we're able to admire how ASML is cutting 4% of its workforce as reducing the number of managers but Amazon cutting 1%^H^H 4% of its corporate workforce so that they can get to "reducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing bureaucracy" is considered to be because of other secret causes that are a sign of the company failing.
- fishingisfun 9mo agodont count warehouse works and corp folks in the same bucket. thats like mixing commercial and residential real estate markets in one report without diff
- arjie 9mo agoA reasonable correction. Apparently 25% of Amazon employees are in corporate or AWS[0]. So they're both roughly 4% layoffs. 0: https://redstagfulfillment.com/how-many-people-work-for-amazon/ https://redstagfulfillment.com/how-many-people-work-for-amaz...
- franktankbank 9mo agoAmazon has 150k in India alone, presumably corporate? So now you are looking at closer to 7%.
- seinvak 9mo agoWho said employees in India are unaffected by these layoffs?
- franktankbank 9mo agoASML isn't laying off their blue collar labor and neither is Amazon. Apples to Apples would be US based corporate numbers.