我解读了一下andy的话
“We were seeing things that were different from what we’ve seen before, and we just felt like we needed to streamline our costs,” Jassy said..--
Earlier this month, Amazon began letting go of employees in several divisions, including human resources, and devices and services. The company is expected to cut as many as 10,000 jobs, though the number remains fluid because the decisions are being made on a business-by-business basis.
The pain isn’t likely to end soon. Jassy confirmed Amazon, which counts 1.6 million employees globally, will continue to lay off employees into the new year, while some teams were offered buyouts in anticipation of involuntary layoffs in the coming months.
Jassy said Wednesday that Amazon decided the layoffs were necessary after it froze hiring in its corporate workforce.
“As we went through the plans, we realized we needed to be more slim on some of our resources,” he added.
如果按照这个字面意思来解读,他是在justify现有layoff的decision,还没有到继续加码的那个地步 |