Less than a month after Turlock celebrated the grand opening of its Amazon fulfillment center, the multinational tech, entertainment and online mega-retailer is reportedly planning to lay off thousands of employees. I was.
Amazon is aiming to cut about 10,000 jobs, mostly in retail, devices and human resources, The New York Times reported Monday.
The numbers are still in flux, as the cuts are being implemented by individual teams, according to the Times. But at about 10,000, that’s about 3% of Amazon’s corporate workforce, and less than 1% of the global workforce of more than 1.5 million, mostly hourly workers. .
The good news is that the layoffs won’t affect the Turlock site.
Nicole Banke, a member of Amazon’s workplace communications team, said: “By early next year, he plans to hire 1,500 people.”
Amazon opened with 200 to 300 employees last month and is expected to hire more seasonal workers. Turlock’s facility, his second in Stanislaus County, is a Patterson factory that opened in 2013 and employs about 600 people. was less than According to senior operations manager Steve Ramirez, it is expected to be fully operational by mid-February. Our warehouse operates 24/7. Starting wages for workers at the Turlock facility are just under $19 an hour.
On the same day as The Times layoff report, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced that he would donate most of his fortune during his lifetime.
Bezos’ “real-time” worth, estimated by Forbes at around $124.1 billion, was announced Monday in a joint CNN interview with girlfriend Lauren Sanchez. The billionaire did not specify how or to whom he would give the money, but said the couple was building the “ability” to do so.
Bezos stepped down as CEO of Amazon last year to devote more time to philanthropy and other projects. Among other donations, he pledged his $10 billion to fight climate change as part of his Bezos Earth Fund initiative. Last year, he gave his $510.7 million to charity, according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
On Saturday, Bezos and Sanchez announced a conditional $100 million grant to singer Dolly Parton, acclaimed for her philanthropic efforts to help develop a Moderna vaccine for COVID-19.
— Journal reporter Joe Cortez and Associated Press contributed to this report.
