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Amazon has been "working to strengthen our organization by reducing layers."
Amazon sent a notice out to staffers in an apparent error acknowledging "organizational changes" at the company.
An internal email referring to a new wave of redundancies was sent to a number of Amazon employees before being cancelled.
The e-commerce giant appears to have inadvertently tipped off some employees to layoffs planned for Wednesday, Jan. 28, by sending an errant email.
Amazon is laying off another 16,000 staff and is reported to have accidentally emailed one of its teams a day early with the news. Amazon posted the news publicly via a note from Beth Galetti, Senior Vice President of People Experience,
Amazon has been forced into damage control after a draft email about new global layoffs was accidentally sent to employees.
Amazon recently made an error in its layoff announcement strategy by preemptively sending out emails to AWS employees.
Amazon mistakenly sent email to cloud employees about upcoming layoffs amidst efforts to streamline operations.
Amazon employees were shaken after a premature internal email hinted at fresh layoffs, as the company prepares further corporate job cuts.