Amazon announced that it will start to lay off employees in June 2022, 1 1, mainly focusing on equipment business, human resources and retail business. According to The Wall Street Journal, about 10000 people participated. In the next few weeks, a new wave of layoffs will make the total number of layoffs in Amazon exceed 65,438 +0.8 million. These unemployed employees are mainly concentrated at the company level, including retail, equipment and human resources departments. Regarding the reasons for layoffs, according to The Wall Street Journal, Andy Jassy said in his blog: "Due to the uncertain economic situation and increasing uncertainty, we will have to continue to lay off employees."

This shows that Amazon is facing difficulties such as economic recession, soaring costs and slowing growth of online store business.