The news of massive layoffs, bidding for storage capacity and changes in storage policies of Amazon has touched the heartstrings of every seller. In the post-epidemic era, at the time of high inflation in Europe and the United States, whether the global economy can recover rapidly, or whether the global economic winter will come as scheduled this year, has become the concern of every cross-border e-commerce person.
On January 5, Amazon CEO Jessy said that the number of employees affected by layoffs would eventually exceed 18000, higher than the number originally planned by the company, and also the largest number of layoffs in the wave of layoffs in large technology companies so far.
"Amazon has gone through the past economic uncertainty and difficulties, and we will continue to do so." Andy Jassy said in the memorandum, "These changes will help us to seek long-term opportunities with a stronger cost structure."
From January 18, we communicated with employees affected by layoffs and said that many teams were affected, including Amazon e-commerce and human resources, experience and technology departments.
With the cooling of online shopping, Amazon employees have a lot of redundancy. In order to control costs, Amazon has gradually launched a layoff plan. As of September 2022, Amazon had 1.5 million employees, a large part of whom worked in its warehouse.
In the second quarter of 2022, Amazon laid off about 90000 warehouse employees, and then completed a round of layoffs in technology, equipment, retail and human resources departments in early November, involving nearly 10000 employees.
In 2022, Amazon began to experience losses in the first and second quarters, and the e-commerce business fell sharply. Although the performance in the third and fourth quarters has eased, it is still lower than the market expectation. At the end of 2022, Amazon's market value has evaporated by $1 trillion.
Against the backdrop of the slowdown in global economic growth, American inflation is "high fever", and the Internet dividend is gradually fading. However, with the release of large-scale layoffs, Amazon's share price has not fallen sharply, but has begun to flatten, stopping the general trend of four consecutive months of decline.

There are different opinions on what kind of butterfly effect this layoff storm will have on sellers. On the one hand, it is difficult to break down the warehouse and put on the shelf. On the other hand, Amazon continues to reduce its warehouse workers, making the already insufficient logistics capacity more difficult.