US EditionDavenport Safe From Reported Amazon Layoffs, 16,000 Corporate Jobs Cut
Amazon’s layoffs cut about 9% of its corporate workforce to reduce organizational layers and bureaucracy while reallocating resources to data, automation, and analytics.
- This week, Amazon said it is eliminating 16,000 corporate jobs, roughly 9% of its corporate workforce, despite $180.2 billion in September‑quarter sales and a $2.5 trillion market cap.
- In a staff memo, Beth Galetti, senior vice president of people experience and technology at Amazon, said the company is "strengthening" the organization by reducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing bureaucracy, while Amazon said AI is not the primary cause of cuts.
- Other firms such as Pinterest and Meta are also trimming staff this month, with Dow cutting 4,500 jobs under an AI-driven plan and Pinterest reducing less than 15% of its workforce.
- Consumers' souring mood and job worries are likely to shape scrutiny of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' next jobs report next Friday, while experts note Amazon cannot easily retrain its logistics workforce into AI builders.
- Historical precedent shows tech transitions often trigger mass layoffs, as seen at IBM, Hewlett Packard and Microsoft, while companies pivot into cloud and data‑center businesses amid a widening white‑collar recession.
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Big techs continue to deal with massive layoffs, the most recent with Amazon’s announcement of cutting 16,000 jobs. It’s a trend that started long before the AI race: the organizational change brought about by the arrival...
Amazon’s layoffs are staggering. We’ve seen this before
Big Tech continues to wrestle with mass layoffs, most recently with Amazon’s announcement of 16,000 job cuts. It’s a trend that started long before the AI race: organizational change brought by the arrival of new technology.
Amazon will cut around 16,000 corporate jobs in the second round of mass layoffs for the e-commerce company in three months.
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