Amazon has revealed plans for a fresh round of layoffs that will erase several hundred of the tech titan’s jobs in the Bay Area, cutbacks that will primarily affect workers in Santa Clara County.

The e-commerce company has decided to chop 643 jobs in the Bay Area, Amazon reported in a WARN letter that it sent to the state Employment Development Department.

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The Amazon layoffs are being revealed on the heels of decisions by Facebook app owner Meta Platforms to slash 308 Menlo Park jobs and chip industry giant Applied Materials to cut 363 jobs, affecting workers in Santa Clara and Sunnyvale.

Bay Area tech companies have been cutting staffing in recent years following a hiring boom during the coronavirus outbreak to meet soaring demand for remote work and distance learning

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