Tuesday, November 22, 2022

"Alexa, are you not feeling well today?"


Amazon is going through the biggest layoffs in the company's history right now, with a plan to eliminate some 10,000 jobs. It's hard to grasp how many employees companies like Amazon, YouTube, Fakebook and Google actually have. It appears times are really tough at all of them - could it be the recession?
 
There's a very good article at arstechnica.com that explains what they're doing to try and stop the bleeding. Here it is:




2 comments:

  1. I read an article last week (I think it was then) that talked about Amazon rolling out a new robot to pick orders in their warehouses.

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  2. "It's hard to grasp how many employees companies like Amazon, YouTube, Fakebook and Google actually have."

    I worked long enough in corporate America to ask the PROPER question:

    "It's hard to grasp how many employees companies like Amazon, YouTube, Fakebook and Google really do any useful work."

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