00:0016,000 corporate jobs is the latest wave of more than one wave.
00:05And the messaging and in line with your reporting, right, is that this is about.
00:10Efficiency and streamlining, not about AI.
00:15What are the details of this particular trim that we're seeing?
00:20Yeah, definitely a delayering.
00:21They're kind of targeting the middle.
00:22And this is something that goes back to last year when.
00:25Jassy was talking about, you know, more more people.
00:30Who are doing the direct work and fewer people managing the work, you know, in the middle.
00:35So there's there's that in there.
00:37It also hit a large.
00:40You know, different parts of the organization.
00:43So when when they had.
00:45Initially laid off 14,000 back in October, departments were given a choice.
00:50They said they had to hit some numbers.
00:51They were given a choice.
00:52Do you want to cut people now or wait until after.
00:55After the holiday season.
00:56And so a lot of departments, particularly the retail.
01:00The retail division waited until after Christmas to do their cuts.
01:02So now we're seeing a total of 30,000.
01:05Which is the biggest in Amazon's history for the corporate side.
01:10And that's, you know, compared to, I think, 27,000, which was a few years ago back in.
01:152021 and 22.
01:17Now, it feels Spencer that they've been.
01:20At length to say this isn't some regular occurrence.
01:23I know Beth Galetti, who's.
01:25Really in charge of people experience technology is this isn't going to be some rolling set of cuts.
01:30That we see every few months, but 30,000 last three months is a huge amount.
01:35Yeah, 30,000 is a big amount.
01:38And but also if you read her statement very.
01:40Carefully, it's really corporate gobbledygook trying to strike that tone between.
01:45You know, reassuring employees, but also not making any promises.
01:48You know what I mean?
01:49So she's.
01:50She's saying some might ask if this is going to be a rolling theme and, you know, but she's not really.
01:55She's saying, hey, we're not going to cut any more over this period of time.
01:58So it's kind of just not.
02:00Noncommittal gobbledygook if you really read it carefully.
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