"Workers at Amazon Web Services (AWS) received a meeting invitation from a top executive on Tuesday for the following day subsequently cancelled that also contained a draft email. The message erroneously said the affected employees in the US, Canada and Costa Rica had already been told they had lost their jobs. It was signed by Colleen Aubrey, a senior vice-president of applied AI solutions at the company's cloud computing arm AWS, while the layoffs were referred to in the email as Project Dawn."
"Changes like this are hard on everyone, Aubrey wrote in the email, which was seen by multiple news outlets including Reuters and Bloomberg. These decisions are difficult and are made thoughtfully as we position our organisation and AWS for future success. The email referred to a separate message from Amazon's human resources boss, which did not appear to have been sent. Amazon had announced in October it was cutting 14,000 corporate roles."
An internal meeting invitation mistakenly contained a draft email stating AWS workers in the US, Canada and Costa Rica had already been told they lost their jobs, and the draft labeled the effort Project Dawn. The draft was signed by Colleen Aubrey, senior vice-president of applied AI solutions at AWS, and referenced a separate human resources message that did not appear to have been sent. Amazon announced in October it would cut 14,000 corporate roles and has been reducing headcount to reverse pandemic hiring across its roughly 1.5 million global workforce. Reports said cloud computing and stores units could be targeted in further reductions, though no second round of layoffs was confirmed. Separately, UPS said it would cut up to 30,000 jobs this year as it shifts toward higher-margin shipments.
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