Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Is Laying Off 1,400 Employees: ‘No Easy Way to Communicate This’

In a phone call described as “all-hands” by Reuters, the CEO of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin announced layoffs affecting around 10% of his staff.

The company-wide layoffs will affect around 1,400 people.

Blue Origin had 14,000 employees before the layoffs with offices in Texas, Florida, and Washington State.

Reuters reports that the meeting lasted 10 minutes and was scheduled the night before.

Related: How Do Billionaires Become Best Friends? They Launch Rockets on the Same Day. That’s What Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos Did.

“There’s no easy way to communicate this,” CEO Dave Limp said in the memo obtained by tech site GeekWire. “There’s no question that we’ve had a lot of successes over

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