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Amazon is laying off an additional 9,000 employees.
  • Amazon is laying off another 9,000 employees.
  • That's on top of the 18,000 job cuts announced earlier this year.
  • CEO Andy Jassy said the additional cuts weren't announced until cost-cutting analysis was finished. 

Amazon is laying off an additional 9,000 employees, the e-commerce giant's CEO Andy Jassy said Monday. 

The layoffs will come on top of the cuts to 18,000 positions that the company disclosed in January.