[jansan]

They actually still have 1,5 million employees. The number has been approximately the same since 2021, and those 16,000 won't make a dent.

[bickfordb]

The 1.5M number includes non-corporate employees (warehouse). They likely included this number to soften the message. The corporate workforce is ~300K so this is actually ~4% of their workforce.

[physicsguy]

Makes a dent when they fire at the high salary end and rehire at lower salaries.

[nemomarx]

I mean most of those are warehouse workers or delivery or customer support or something, right?

Pretty big difference between corporate Amazon and retail business Amazon division wise I think