Amazon cuts 2,100 jobs in Washington as part of companywide reduction, report says
Amazon laid off about 2,100 corporate employees in Washington this week as part of its 16,000-person cut, according to a report by Bloomberg Friday.
The cuts push the number of local employees affected by the tech giant's waves of layoffs to more than 5,400 since October, impacting employees working in software engineering, data science, project management, among other roles in offices in Seattle and Bellevue.
In Seattle, where Amazon has just under 50,000 employees, the tech giant will lay off about 1,700, per the report. In Bellevue, where it has about 14,000 employees, Amazon will cut about 700 roles. Amazon is the state’s largest tech employer with about 65,000 corporate employees.
In reporting the local cuts, Bloomberg cited "documents filed with state and local authorities." When reached by phone Friday afternoon, Anneliese Vance-Sherman, the chief labor economist for the Washington Employment Security Department, said the agency had not yet received the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification from Amazon for the corporate layoffs.
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