Amazon to reduce staff by another 9,000, largest cuts ever

SEATTLE, Washington: In a memo to staff sent this week, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the company plans to cut another 9,000 jobs in the next few weeks, the second largest round of layoffs in the company's history, and adding to the 18,000 staff it laid off in January.

This year, the tech companies have announced tens of thousands of firings.

In his memo, Jassy stated that the second phase of Amazon's annual