Replace November third, 1:25PM ET: In a observe emailed to staff and posted publicly on November third, Amazon svp of individuals expertise and know-how Beth Galetti introduced a “pause on new incremental hires in our company workforce.”

The hiring freeze contains all company and know-how positions for Amazon’s retail and operations, which account for the majority of Amazon gross sales. Nonetheless, Amazon’s extra worthwhile cloud computing division gained’t be affected. Scholar hiring and discipline positions are additionally exempt from the pause, and Bloomberg notes the warehouse community won’t be affected, both.

The announcement comes from an inner memo despatched to Amazon recruiters, who have been instructed to inform potential candidates that Amazon was not in a hiring freeze and that any open positions can be closed quickly. The announcement additionally talked about that new openings would grow to be accessible after the brand new 12 months.

Any candidates that had interviews scheduled earlier than October fifteenth are nonetheless eligible to obtain affords however would have their begin dates pushed again to 2023. The Instances notes there have been round 20,000 openings listed within the division that Amazon was seeking to fill earlier than the freeze went into impact.

“Amazon continues to have a major variety of open roles accessible throughout the corporate,” in keeping with Amazon spokesman Brad Glasser. “We have now many various companies at numerous phases of evolution, and we count on to maintain adjusting our hiring methods in every of those companies at numerous junctures.”

The writing on the wall could have come again in September when Amazon selected to not maintain its annual “profession day,” the place it usually recruits for round 10,000 positions to hitch its workforce of over 1.5 million world staff.

Amazon joins Meta as one of many newest tech firms to gradual its hiring practices in an effort to chop prices. The hiring freeze is one other measure put collectively by Amazon’s chief government Andy Jassy in a response to Amazon’s slowest progress in over 20 years. Jassy has additionally curtailed spending by pumping the brakes on Amazon’s speedy warehouse enlargement and shutting different amenities.