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Well, it鈥檚 official.

Today was certainly not a prime day for workers as the e-tailer turned everything-tailer continued laying off employees to the tune of 10,000 jobs.

Though huge, that number represents only about 3% of the company鈥檚 estimated 1.5 million full- and part-time workers worldwide. Cuts are planned for the behemoth鈥檚 devices, retail and human resources sectors.

The Amazon cuts also aren鈥檛 the largest in layoff headlines for tech this year. That nefarious award goes to , which earlier this month announced plans to lay off 11,000 workers. At the time, Meta CEO to over-hiring during the pandemic. Yeah, no kidding.

As , Amazon鈥檚 PR team likely scrambled to also heavily promote Amazon CEO 鈥� 鈥渆xclusive鈥� sit-down interview with in which he discussed hismost of his $122 billion fortune during his lifetime.

Isn鈥檛 that nice.

Also on Tuesday, Amazon announced the launch of its new virtual clinic 鈥� all this on the heels of Bezos鈥� tweet last month that followers 鈥渂atten down the hatches.鈥�

See, Amazon wants to help us.

The competing headlines amounted to good vs. bad news whiplash for industry watchers and we can only imagine the conversations among laid-off Amazon workers at happy hour tonight.

Illustration: Dom Guzman