Amazon plans to eradicate 9,000 extra jobs within the subsequent few weeks, CEO Andy Jassy stated in a memo to employees on Monday.

The job cuts would mark the second largest spherical of layoffs within the firm’s historical past, including to the 18,000 staff the tech large stated it will lay off in January. The corporate’s workforce doubled in the course of the pandemic, nevertheless, within the midst of a hiring surge throughout nearly your entire tech sector.

Tech firms have introduced tens of 1000’s of job cuts this yr.

Within the memo, Jassy stated the second section of the corporate’s annual planning course of accomplished this month led to the extra job cuts. He stated Amazon will nonetheless rent in some strategic areas.

“Some might ask why we didn’t announce these position reductions with those we introduced a pair months in the past. The brief reply is that not the entire groups have been performed with their analyses within the late fall; and somewhat than rush by means of these assessments with out the suitable diligence, we selected to share these choices as we’ve made them so folks had the data as quickly as doable,” Jassy stated.

The job cuts introduced Monday will hit worthwhile areas for the corporate together with its cloud computing unit AWS and its burgeoning promoting enterprise. Twitch, the gaming platform Amazon owns, can even see some layoffs in addition to Amazon’s PXT organizations, which deal with human sources and different features.

Prior layoffs had additionally hit PXT, the corporate’s shops division, which encompasses its e-commerce enterprise in addition to firm’s brick-and-mortar shops equivalent to Amazon Contemporary and Amazon Go, and different departments such because the one which runs the digital assistant Alexa.

Earlier this month, the corporate stated it will pause building on its headquarters constructing in northern Virginia, although the primary section of that challenge will open this June with 8,000 staff.

Like different tech firms, together with Fb guardian Meta and Google guardian Alphabet, Amazon ramped up hiring in the course of the pandemic to satisfy the demand from homebound Individuals that have been more and more shopping for stuff on-line to maintain themselves secure from the virus.

Amazon’s workforce, in warehouses and places of work, doubled to greater than 1.6 million folks in about two years. However demand slowed because the worst of the pandemic eased. The corporate started pausing or cancelling its warehouse enlargement plans final yr.

Amid rising anxiousness over the potential for a recession, Amazon up to now few months shut down a subsidiary that’s been promoting materials for almost 30 years and shuttered its hybrid digital, in-home care service Amazon Care amongst different cost-cutting strikes.

Jassy stated Monday given the unsure economic system and the “uncertainty that exists within the close to future,” the corporate has chosen to be extra streamlined.

He stated the groups that can be impacted by the most recent spherical of layoffs should not performed making ultimate choices on which roles can be eradicated. The corporate plans to finalize these choices by mid to late April and notify those that can be laid off.