https://www.computerworld.com/article/3682071/amazon-layoffs-now-expected-to-mount-to-20000-including-top-managers.html
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I don't know about that source.
As long as I can get my ice cream scoop in 48hrs do what you have too.
Amazon's retail business grew quickly during the early days of the pandemic, which “forced us to make decisions at that time to spend a lot more money and to go much faster in building infrastructure than we ever imagined we would,” Jassy said at the conference.
“We knew we might be overbuilding,” Jassy said.
Translation: We knew we could make billions in profit by over hiring, even though we knew things will eventually go back to close to what they previously were. Once things went back, we knew we could just do a mass layoff.