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Amazon is cutting hundreds of jobs at it
Amazon is cutting hundreds of jobs at it
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2022-08-02
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Amazon is cutting hundreds of jobs at its Seattle headquarters in a rare set of layoffs for the online etailing giant,according to a media report The company will 1 cut hundreds more jobs in other parts of Amazon's operations,The Seattle Times reported on Monday,2 a person familiar with the eliminations An Amazon spokesman told Fortune that as part of our annual planning process,we are 3 head count adjustments across the company-4 reductions in a couple of places and aggressive hiring in many others 5 the Times,the Amazon layoffs are the result of the quick 6 of late that saw it end up with too much staff in some units.The paper also said managers are under pressure to 7 lower caliber employees and show more spending discipline.Amazon has a problem right now with 8 one un named engineer told the Times The layoffs are mostly 9 in Amazons consumer retail businesses,the Times reported.The move 10 recent layoffs at Amazon's e-commerce arch-rival Walmart.Walmart is in the process of cutting up to 500 or so jobs at its Bentonville,Arkansas headquarters 11 it looks to streamline its operations and be as nimble as it can to 12 with Amazon.For both companies,the cuts are modest in relation 13 staffing levels.Amazon employs about 566,000 people worldwide,according to its recently 14 annual report for 2017.That was up from 341,400 a year earlier.(15 its organic growth,Amazon has made some acquisitions in the last year,notably that of Whole Foods Market last summer.)Such has Amazons growth been that it is currently in the process of 16 locations for a second headquarters Earlier this month,Amazon reported 17 of 60.5 billion for the three months ended Dec.31.18 from$43.74 billilion a year earlier,fueleded by 19 sales during the holiday season It also reported a profit of 1.9 billion on the 20 of the popularity of its voice-activated Echo devices and jump in its Prime memberships.12选?A.substituteB.competeC.sympathizeD.cooperate
选项
A.substitute
B.compete
C.sympathize
D.cooperate
答案
B
解析
语义辨析题。空格所在句子指出,据称沃尔玛将在其阿肯色州本顿维尔总部裁掉约500个职位,以期在业务“瘦身后能更好地与亚马逊竞争。根据上文提到的“亚马逊在电商领域的劲敌沃尔玛最近也在裁员”可知二者是竞争关系,因此应选择[B]compete,意为“竞争”。[A]substitute“代替”,其后应接介词for,而不是with,故排除;[C]sympathize“同情”,沃尔玛裁员的目的是为了提高竞争力,而不是因为同情亚马逊,故排除;[D]cooperate“合作”,在意义上也不恰当。
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