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Amazon has been "working to strengthen our organization by reducing layers."
The layoffs mark the second round of mass cuts at Amazon since last October, when the company laid off roughly 14,000 employees across its corporate workforce.
Amazon will lay off approximately 400 workers in Washington state as part of its decision to close all Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh stores across the country, according to a notice filed with the state Employment Security Department on Wednesday.
An early alert left impacted employees in the dark.
Amazon said Wednesday it was slashing another 16,000 jobs across the company in an ongoing bid to restructure the sprawling trillion-dollar firm.
Amazon announced 16,000 corporate layoffs on Wednesday. Executives say it aims to transform into the 'world's largest startup' with a cultural reset.
Estimates place Texas 3rd in the nation for Amazon workforce size.
An internal email referring to a new wave of redundancies was sent to a number of Amazon employees before being cancelled.
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