NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Amazon is pausing hiring for its corporate workforce, the latest move by the company to cut costs amid worries about the wider economic environment.
Company executives have decided to halt 鈥渘ew incremental hires鈥 for the entire corporate workforce and anticipate the pause to be in place for a few months, Beth Galetti, the senior vice president of people experience and technology, said in a memo posted on Amazon's website on Thursday.
The company 鈥渨ill continue to monitor what we鈥檙e seeing in the economy and the business to adjust as we think makes sense,鈥 Galetti said. 鈥淲e鈥檙e facing an unusual macro-economic environment, and want to balance our hiring and investments with being thoughtful about this economy.鈥
Depending on the business, Galetti noted Amazon will hire backfills to replace employees who leave the company. In some areas, it will continue to hire people incrementally.
In the past few weeks, Amazon had paused hiring for the corporate side of its retail division and some of its other businesses. The company has also gotten rid of subsidiary and shuttered its health service. Galetti said the Seattle-based retail and tech giant still intends to hire a 鈥渕eaningful number of people鈥 next year.
