"Amazon employees are doing what Big Tech workers often do when they're anxious about layoffs: making memes. The company is expected to cut thousands more corporate roles as soon as next week, Business Insider reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. This coming round would mark another wave of mass layoffs at Amazon in just a few months, following the roughly 14,000 jobs eliminated in October."
"In the absence of official companywide communication, workers have been trying to ease tension in an internal Slack channel with more than 26,000 employees who joined by posting memes and jokes, which Business Insider viewed. The focus of their snark? Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos' famous "two-pizza rule," originally designed to keep meetings lean and productive. The rule was simple: never have a meeting so large that two pizzas couldn't feed the entire group."
Amazon is expected to cut thousands more corporate roles as soon as next week, following roughly 14,000 jobs eliminated in October. In the absence of companywide communication, employees have posted memes and jokes in an internal Slack channel of more than 26,000 members to ease tension. The memes riff on Jeff Bezos' two-pizza rule, using pizza imagery to comment on shrinking team sizes and increased managers' span of control. Examples include a thin pizza slice captioned "how we feed two pizza teams" and AWS-branded pizza boxes captioned "did someone say 2 pizza team?" Many expected cuts are concentrated in the cloud division. Amazon did not respond to a request for comment.
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