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Amazon.com Inc's first-quarter revenue beat estimates on Thursday, helped by resilient demand for online shopping and cloud services businesses.

Amazon Web Services employees in the US, Canada and Costa Rica whose jobs were being eliminated were notified early Wednesday

Whole Foods, which is owned by Amazon, is laying off hundreds of corporate employees in anticipation of a recession hurting its business later this year.

The exact number of employee terminations is still undisclosed, but it correlates with the 9,000 workforce reduction that CEO Jassy declared in March.

Amazon announced 9,000 job cuts in the last round of layoffs earlier this year, bringing the total number of people who were handed a pink slip to 27,000

Google had in January laid off 12,000 employees in its first round of layoffs.

Priyanka Chakraborty shared her story on LinkedIn, expressing her mental exhaustion after applying to numerous companies in the last two months without success

Andy Jassy stated that the decision to fire 27,000 employees was "hard" but it will benefit the company in the longer run.

Amazon’s second phase of layoffs took place last month where the company fired 9,000 employees

Karan Virwani, the Chief Executive Officer of the Indian arm of the company said the ESOP surrender is yet another step towards wealth creation and empowering people