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According to news on January 18, retail giant Amazon is preparing to launch a new round of layoffs in response to a slowdown in US online sales growth and a possible recession.

In early January, Amazon announced that it would cut 18000 jobs company-wide, the largest layoff in the company's history. The round of layoffs began last year and was initially most affected by Amazon's equipment and services division, which develops digital assistant Alexa and smart speaker Echo.

A new round of layoffs will start as early as Wednesday, local time, and this time will focus on retail and human resources teams.

"Amazon has withstood the challenges of economic difficulties in the past and we will continue to do so," Andy Jassy, Amazon's chief executive, said in a memo to employees earlier this month. These changes will help us pursue long-term opportunities with a stronger cost structure. "

Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, took a long time last year to adapt to the challenge of a sharp slowdown in ecommerce growth as shoppers returned to the habits they had before the outbreak. Amazon delayed the opening of its warehouse, suspended hiring in its retail division, recently extended the hiring freeze to the entire company, and then began layoffs.

Amazon is one of several large technology companies that are cutting jobs, including Cisco, Intel, Meta, Qualcomm and Salesforce.

Mr. Jassi said in his memo that Amazon will provide severance pay and transitional health benefits to affected employees and will do its best to help them get back to work.

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