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Amazon lists employees at 1.6M employees worldwide. (https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/number...)

Even if they have 1% churn each month, that's about 16,000 turnover a month. Laying off 10,000 is not news until we find out where the cuts are happening.

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This is specifically tech and corporate employees, which is a much smaller pool than the 1.6M you're quoting.

Disclaimer: I work for Amazon (but also haven't stated any opinions)

What is the ballpark of corporate employees count?

Hard to tell but probably around 300K.

Yes, we know. That's why I specifically said it isn't news until we find out where those 10,000 people are being hit.

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