"Reuters reported on Friday that Amazon intended to lay off thousands of corporate employees starting this week. But the company has not yet informed impacted employees, nor has it confirmed the layoff plan. The email sent on Tuesday, signed by Colleen Aubrey, senior vice-president of applied AI solutions at AWS, wrongly said that impacted employees in the U.S., Canada and Costa Rica had already been informed that they lost their jobs."
"In Slack messages viewed by Reuters, AWS employees who received the email said the Wednesday meeting was almost immediately cancelled. Amazon referred in the email to the layoffs as "Project Dawn." "Changes like this are hard on everyone," Aubrey wrote in the email, reviewed by Reuters. "These decisions are difficult and are made thoughtfully as we position our organization and AWS for future success." Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment."
Amazon appears to have prematurely alerted AWS cloud-computing employees to planned layoffs by sending a commiseration email and team-wide meeting invitation hours early. Plans for thousands of corporate layoffs were expected to start this week, though impacted employees had not been officially informed and the company had not confirmed the plan. The Tuesday email, signed by Colleen Aubrey, wrongly stated that affected employees in the U.S., Canada and Costa Rica had already been told they lost their jobs. Slack messages showed the scheduled Wednesday meeting was almost immediately cancelled. The email referred to the cuts as "Project Dawn." The company cut about 14,000 corporate jobs in October and recently cut jobs in Fresh and Go divisions.
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