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- Amazon and Meta say their combined 48,000 job losses are about getting leaner.
- For remaining employees, that means being squeezed for value.
- The age of growth is over, and the age of revenue-per-employee is in.
Amazon employees that have managed to cling onto their jobs after two devastating rounds of layoffs in the space of three months may feel like they've survived the worst of a brutal period in tech. They're not off the hook yet: Workers will have to fight tooth and nail to prove their worth.