On Wednesday, a day after the layoffs began, Amazon published an email from Dave Limp, the senior vice president of devices and services, confirming cuts had occurred amid the “uncertain macroeconomic environment.”“In light of this, we’ve been working over the last few months to further prioritize what matters most to our customers and the business,” he wrote.“After a deep set of reviews, we recently decided to consolidate some teams and programs.”In a separate statement from Amazon spokeswoman Kelly Nantel, the company confirmed that “some teams are making adjustments, which in some cases means certain roles are no longer necessary.” The statement did not give specifics on the number of employees who would be laid off.Several employees were laid off from Amazon’s Alexa team, which works on the voice assistant technology, and layoffs occurred in Boston, Seattle, Vancouver and the Bay Area, according to screenshots of the company’s internal Slack messages shared by an employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect their job.Earlier this month, Amazon announced a broad hiring freeze among its white-collar workforce that would last at least “the next few months.”The cuts are expected to be the e-commerce giant’s largest round of layoffs in its history, marking a big turnaround for a company that has hired aggressively over the past decade.“I will miss working with you and wish you all great things.”In recent weeks, Twitter, Salesforce, Facebook parent Meta and other technology companies have announced significant layoffs or hiring freezes, following months of warning signs, such as tech start-ups finding it harder to raise capital."