Todd Bishop / GeekWire
Amazon sheds record 99k employees after overstaffing warehouses, will slow office hiring – Amazons direct workforce declined by 99,000 employees from the first to the second quarter, to 1.52 million people, the largest sequential drop in its history, after overstaffing its warehouses to handle pandemic-driven demand. The decline was primarily due to attrition in Amazons fulfillment and distribution network, said Brian Olsavsky, chief …
