Mark Haranas

Mark Haranas is an assistant news editor and longtime journalist now covering cloud, multicloud, software, SaaS and channel partners at CRN. He speaks with world-renown CEOs and IT experts as well as covering breaking news and live events while also managing several CRN reporters. Mark received his BA in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and immediately went into covering news—from politics and crime to entertainment and human-interest stories. He's moderated state Senate debates as well as mayoral races. As a life-long journalist, Mark enjoys interviewing titans of industry and experts to give his readers the most up-to-date information and important news they need to know. Mark started working at the assignment desk of an ABC News broadcast affiliate in Springfield, Massachusetts at the age of 20. Since then, he hosted an entertainment podcast, worked as a producer and on-air talent for a radio station, and spent years as a reporter then managing editor of the local newspaper The Gardner News. He joined CRN in 2015 and dove head-first into the technology field. Mark is an American Society of Business Publication Editors award winner. He speaks with world-renown CEOs and IT experts as well as covering breaking news and live events for the likes of AWS, Dell, Google Cloud, VMware and other cloud companies. He lives in Hopkinton, Massachusetts with his wife and three children. When not working, Mark is with his children, coaching sports and can be found on Cape Cod.

Biography:  https://www.crn.com/authors/mark-haranas

63%

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The Daily's Verdict

This author has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.

Bias

50%

Examples:

  • AWS is cutting hundreds of jobs inside its sales, marketing and global services organization while also laying off hundreds of employees from Amazon's physical stores technology team
  • The $97 billion Seattle-based company said the layoffs were needed to streamline some business units while shifting efforts toward more key strategic areas
  • These new AWS employee layoffs will mostly impact employees inside AWS's training and certification and sales operations teams

Conflicts of Interest

75%

Examples:

  • AWS has identified a few targeted areas of the organization we need to streamline
  • we expect these role eliminations to impact several hundred roles in specific areas of the sales, marketing and global services organization and a few hundred roles in the physical stores technology team
  • Within our training and certification organization, we have evolved our strategy to prioritize investing in self-serve digital training and delivering instructor-led training through AWS Training Partners

Contradictions

85%

Examples:

  • A few targeted areas of the organization we need to streamline in order to continue focusing our efforts on key strategic areas
  • we expect these role eliminations to impact several hundred roles in specific areas of the sales, marketing and global services organization and a few hundred roles in the physical stores technology team
  • Within our training and certification organization, we have evolved our strategy to prioritize investing in self-serve digital training and delivering instructor-led training through AWS Training Partners

Deceptions

60%

Examples:

  • The statement ‘AWS has identified a few targeted areas of the organization we need to streamline in order to continue focusing our efforts on key strategic areas’ contradicts itself as it suggests these layoffs are necessary for optimization and yet also states that they will impact hundreds of roles
  • The statement ‘we expect these role eliminations to impact several hundred roles in specific areas of the sales, marketing and global services organization and a few hundred roles in the physical stores technology team’ is deceptive because it implies that only a small number of employees will be affected when in fact hundreds are being laid off
  • The statement ‘Within our training and certification organization, we have evolved our strategy to prioritize investing in self-serve digital training and delivering instructor-led training through AWS Training Partners’ is misleading because it suggests this shift was not happening beforehand when in fact AWS has been offering online courses for years

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Amazon Web Services Cuts Hundreds of Jobs in Sales, Marketing and Global Services Organization as well as the Physical Stores Technology Team

Amazon Web Services Cuts Hundreds of Jobs in Sales, Marketing and Global Services Organization as well as the Physical Stores Technology Team

Broke On: Wednesday, 03 April 2024 Amazon Web Services (AWS) is cutting hundreds of jobs in its sales, marketing and global services organization as well as the physical stores technology team due to a strategic shift in how Amazon uses some applications. The company has identified duplication in roles such as program management and sales operations which spurred layoffs. However, AWS is also hiring for priorities including core areas of their business.