New Delhi: An Amazon worker who was laid off in January has now returned to the corporate, because the tech large hires her again in a senior position solely after 4 months.
Paige Cipriani has returned because the Product Advertising Supervisor, Social Advertising at Amazon within the US.
Taking to Linkedin, Cipriani wrote, “I am so happy to announce that on Monday I started back at Amazon on the Social Marketing team, the same team I was on before being laid off in January. I was re-hired, as a Product Marketing Manager, in a newly opened position so will be focusing on a different line of business than before”.
“I feel so thankful to be back on such a great team and am looking forward to what this new (yet familiar) journey holds,” she added.
In January, Cipriani shared, she was amongst the 18,000 staff affected by the Amazon layoffs.
“Unfortunately, yesterday I woke up to the news that I was one of 18,000 employees laid off from Amazon. It is incredibly hard and I am still trying to process it all,” she wrote on LinkedIn in January.
In the meantime, Amazon India has laid off round 400-500 staff from its Cloud division AWS in addition to Folks Expertise and Technology Options (PXT) or HR and assist verticals.
The downsizing within the nation was a part of the 9,000 layoffs announcement in March by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, based on sources.