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1,852 Amazon workers are out of a job in Seattle.

The company is in the process of laying off 18,000 people, and carried out a round of cuts today. Washington’s publicly-accessible WARN system lets us know how many people in Amazon’s home state were affected: 1,852 in Seattle, and 448 across the lake in Bellevue, for a total of 2,300.

Screenshot of a WARN announcement regarding Amazon’s layoffs.
Workers are reportedly getting a “60-day non-working transitional period with full pay and benefits.”
Screenshot: Sean Hollister / The Verge
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