據(jù)媒體報(bào)道，美國(guó)在線零售巨頭亞馬遜公司近日罕見(jiàn)地在其西雅圖總部裁員數(shù)百人。

《西雅圖時(shí)報(bào)》本周一報(bào)道，據(jù)了解此次裁員內(nèi)情的人稱，亞馬遜還將繼續(xù)從其他業(yè)務(wù)部門(mén)裁員數(shù)百人。

亞馬遜公司的一位發(fā)言人對(duì)《財(cái)富》表示，“作為年度規(guī)劃程序的一部分，我們正在全公司范圍內(nèi)對(duì)員工進(jìn)行調(diào)整，其中對(duì)幾個(gè)地方進(jìn)行了小幅縮減，但在很多其他地方卻在積極招聘。”

據(jù)《西雅圖時(shí)報(bào)》稱，隨著公司近期的快速增長(zhǎng)，亞馬遜的某些部門(mén)出現(xiàn)了“人口過(guò)剩”的問(wèn)題。各部門(mén)經(jīng)理都面臨著擠壓能力較低的員工的壓力，同時(shí)公司對(duì)開(kāi)支也管得更緊了。一位不愿透露姓名的工程師對(duì)《西雅圖時(shí)報(bào)》表示：“亞馬遜現(xiàn)在確實(shí)存在‘人口過(guò)?！膯?wèn)題。”

《西雅圖時(shí)報(bào)》稱，此次裁員主要集中在亞馬遜的消費(fèi)零售業(yè)務(wù)。無(wú)獨(dú)有偶，亞馬遜在電商領(lǐng)域的勁敵沃爾瑪最近也在裁員。據(jù)稱沃爾瑪將在其本頓維爾總部裁掉500個(gè)職位左右，以期在業(yè)務(wù)“瘦身”后能更好地與亞馬遜進(jìn)行競(jìng)爭(zhēng)。

與各自的員工基數(shù)相比，亞馬遜和沃爾瑪此次的裁員幅度都不算大。從亞馬遜近日發(fā)布的2017年年報(bào)看，亞馬遜在全球共有約56.6萬(wàn)名員工，較一年前的34.14萬(wàn)，增幅不可謂不驚人。（除了自身的增長(zhǎng)，亞馬遜去年還進(jìn)行了幾筆收購(gòu)，尤其是去年夏天收購(gòu)了全食公司。）為了給這些新員工安排工作，據(jù)稱亞馬遜正在物色地皮，建設(shè)公司的第二總部。

本月月初，亞馬遜公布了2017年10至12月的營(yíng)收。在假日季的強(qiáng)勢(shì)刺激下，亞馬遜當(dāng)季營(yíng)收達(dá)到605億美元，較上年的437.4億美元有較大增長(zhǎng)。另外由于其聲控設(shè)備Echo大受追捧，加之其Prime服務(wù)的會(huì)員人數(shù)出現(xiàn)躍升，亞馬遜當(dāng)季利潤(rùn)也達(dá)到了19億美元。（財(cái)富中文網(wǎng)）

譯者：樸成奎?

Amazon is cutting hundreds of jobs at its Seattle headquarters in a rare set of layoffs for the online retailing giant, according to a media report.

The company will also cut hundreds more jobs in other parts of Amazon’s operations, the Seattle Times reported on Monday, citing a person familiar with the eliminations.

An Amazon spokesman told Fortune that “as part of our annual planning process, we are making head count adjustments across the company—small reductions in a couple of places and aggressive hiring in many others.”

According to the Times, the Amazon layoffs are the result of the quick growth of late that saw it end up with too much staff in some units. The paper also said managers are under pressure to squeeze out lower-caliber employees and show more spending discipline. “Amazon has a problem right now with overpopulation,” one unnamed engineer told the Times.

The layoffs are mostly concentrated in Amazon’s consumer retail businesses, the Timesreported. The move echoes recent layoffs at Amazon’s e-commerce arch-rival Walmart. Walmart is in the process of cutting up to 500 or so jobs at its Bentonville, Arkansas headquarters as it looks to streamline its operations and be as nimble as it can to compete with Amazon.

For both companies, the cuts are modest in relation to staffing levels. Amazon employs about 566,000 people worldwide, according to its recently published annual report for 2017. That was up from 341,400 a year earlier. (In addition to its organic growth, Amazon has made some acquisitions in the last year, notably that of Whole Foods Market last summer.) Such has Amazon’s growth been that it is currently in the process of prospecting locations for a second headquarters.

Earlier this month, Amazon reported revenues of $60.5 billion for the three months ended Dec. 31, up from $43.74 billion a year earlier, fueled by strong sales during the holiday season. It also reported a profit of $1.9 billion on the strength of the popularity of its voice-activated Echo devices and jump in its Prime memberships.