Amazon on Jan 27 appeared to have mistakenly alerted many Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing employees about layoffs planned for the morning of Jan 28 with a commiseration e-mail and team-wide meeting invite sent hours too early.

亚马逊在1月27日似乎错误地向许多亚马逊网络服务（AWS）云计算员工发送了原定于1月28日上午发布的裁员通知——一封慰问邮件和全团队会议邀请提前数小时发出。



Reuters reported on Jan 23 that

路透社1月23日报道称，

Amazon intended to lay off thousands of corporate employees starting this week, but the company has not yet informed impacted employees, nor has it confirmed the layoff plan.

亚马逊计划从本周起裁减数千名企业员工，但公司尚未通知受影响员工， 也未确认该裁员计划。

The e-mail sent on Jan 27 signed by Ms Colleen Aubrey, senior vice-president of applied AI solutions at AWS, wrongly says that impacted employees in the US, Canada and Costa Rica had already been informed they lost their jobs.

1月27日发出的邮件由AWS应用人工智能解决方案高级副总裁科琳·奥布里签署， 其中错误地声称美国、加拿大和哥斯达黎加的受影响员工已被告知失业。

In Slack channels viewed by Reuters, AWS employees who received the e-mail said the meeting invite for Jan 28 was almost immediately cancelled. Amazon referred in the e-mail to the layoffs as "Project Dawn".

在路透社查看的Slack频道中，收到邮件的AWS员工表示，1月28日的会议邀请几乎立即被取消。 亚马逊在邮件中将此次裁员称为“黎明计划”。

"Changes like this are hard on everyone," Ms Aubrey wrote in the e-mail, reviewed by Reuters. "These decisions are difficult and are made thoughtfully as we position our organisation and AWS for future success."

“此类变动对每个人而言都颇为艰难，”奥布里在路透社审阅的邮件中写道， “这些决定并不容易，是我们为团队与AWS未来发展慎重做出的安排。”

Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Amazon laid off about 14,000 people in October, part of a broader plan to reduce the number of corporate staff by around 30,000, people familiar with the matter said at the time. Amazon tied the October job cuts to the increased use of artificial intelligence and efforts to reduce layers of bureaucracy.

亚马逊未立即回应置评请求。 知情人士当时表示，亚马逊于去年10月裁减约1.4万人，这是一项将企业员工总数减少约3万人的更大规模计划的一部分。 亚马逊将10月的裁员归因于人工智能应用的深化与官僚层级精简的需要。

The full 30,000 jobs would represent a small portion of Amazon's 1.58 million employees, but nearly 10 per cent of the firm's corporate workforce.

完整的3万裁员岗位虽仅占亚马逊158万员工总数的一小部分，但接近该公司企业员工总数的10%。

On Jan 27, Amazon cut jobs in its Fresh grocery and Go market divisions as it plans to close existing bricks-and-mortar stores and convert some of them into Whole Foods stores.

1月27日， 亚马逊在其生鲜杂货店和无人超市部门进行了裁员，同时计划关闭现有实体店并将部分门店转为全食超市。

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