Amazon lays off almost 100 staffers from its video gaming departments

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The redundancies come weeks after the company laid off more than 400 workers from Twitch

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Amazon has actually cut almost 100 staffers within its video gaming subsidiaries as part of its continuous task cuts throughout the business.

As reported by Bloomberg, those impacted consist of workers at Prime Gaming, Game Growth, and its San Diego studio.

In a memo to workers, Amazon Games vice president Christoph Hartmann stated, “Going forward, we will continue to buy our internal advancement efforts, and our groups will continue to grow as our tasks advance.”

Back in March, Amazon stated that it would get rid of about 9000 positions throughout the company; amongst those impacted were more than 400 personnel from Twitch.

At the time, business CEO Andy Jassy stated that as the company re-assessed its operations, consisting of function decreases, the choices led it to lay off 18,000 workers in January.

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