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Amazon plans to open the distribution center later this year. Community activists want jobs to go to people in the neighborhood.

The recent round of Microsoft layoffs has affected the Bethesda team and Halo maker 343 Industries, with executives citing economic downturn

Tech giant Amazon has started to axe over 18,000 jobs which is the largest in their 28-history as the company looks to adapt to the gloomy economic outlook

Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc., two of the world’s biggest companies, began cutting a total of 28,000 jobs on Wednesday in a post-pandemic reckoning that has left almost no tech name unscathed.

Microsoft Corp. said it plans to cut 10,000 jobs, or about 5% of its workforce this year, taking steps to cope with an increasingly bleak outlook that has now bruised many of the technology industry’s biggest companies.

The tech giant employs almost 4,000 staff in the UK

It joins a growing list of Big Tech firms cutting staff.

The news comes after Twitter and Meta laid off thousands of staff with Amazon planning thousands of job losses globally

Microsoft is readying to cut more positions from its global workforce as tech giants continue paring headcount to ride out rough economic conditions, according to media reports on Tuesday. The computer industry stalwart could announce layoffs in its engineering divisions as early as Wednesday, Bloomberg News reported. A Microsoft spokesperson…