Amazon began slicing jobs within the firm’s music division this week, in response to Reuters.
“We now have been carefully monitoring our organizational wants and prioritizing what issues most to prospects and the long-term well being of our companies,” an Amazon spokesperson stated in a press release to Reuters. “Some roles have been eradicated on the Amazon Music workforce. We’ll proceed to put money into Amazon Music.”
The rep didn’t present any data to Reuters on the extent of the cuts, and a spokesperson for Amazon Music didn’t instantly reply to Billboard‘s request for remark.
The most recent wave of cuts provides to a brutal interval for tech — and a tough one for the music business. Within the final 18-ish months, the tech behemoths, from Google to Meta to X (previously Twitter) to Microsoft, have all laid off tens of hundreds of staff.
Amazon has additionally gone via waves of massive cuts already, first eliminating 18,000 jobs, after which slicing one other 9,000. “The overriding tenet of our annual planning this yr was to be leaner whereas doing so in a means that permits us to nonetheless make investments robustly in the important thing long-term buyer experiences that we consider can meaningfully enhance prospects’ lives and Amazon as a complete,” Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told workers in March.
In July, the positioning layoffs.fyi, which tracks the tech business, estimated that greater than 386,000 tech staff had been fired around the globe for the reason that starting of 2022.
In music, Downtown Music Holdings, Warner Music Group, Spotify, Motown Data, Soundcloud, BMI, and extra have laid off workers. (Downtown and SoundCloud have each carried out two rounds of cuts.) The language music executives have used of their layoff bulletins has echoed messages from the tech world, usually counting on buzzwords — suppose “effectivity” and “evolution” — and emphasizing the significance of “future success” as if that out of the blue grew to become an organizational precedence.
It’s extensively believed across the music business that there are extra layoffs to return.
