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Amazon, Goldman Sachs employees flood social media with layoff news

Professional networking platforms, such as LinkedIn and Grapevine, were full of stories of layoffs

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Shivani Shinde Mumbai
Social media and professional community networks have been buzzing with news about Amazon India layoffs. The company earlier this month acknowledged that it was laying off 18,000 workers globally. India will see this impacting about 1,000, or 1 per cent of its workbase.

Professional networking platforms, such as LinkedIn and Grapevine, were full of stories of layoffs.

One of the posts on Grapevine, a community application (app) for professionals in India, said: “You can hear people breaking down and crying in office.”

Another post shared on Twitter by Corporate Chat India – an app for ‘real’ workplace

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