US EditionAmazon cuts 14,000 corporate jobs as spending on artificial intelligence accelerates
Amazon plans to cut about 10% of its 350,000 corporate employees as it reallocates resources to artificial intelligence and automation investments.
- On October 28, Amazon announced plans to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs worldwide, confirming reductions affect corporate employees but not warehouse or delivery staff.
- Company leaders said the cuts aim to rein in expenses, undo the corporate hiring surge during the pandemic, and reduce bureaucracy while relocating some staff to Seattle, Arlington, Va., and Washington, D.C. earlier this year.
- Affected employees will have 90 days to seek new roles internally and receive severance, outplacement services, and health benefits; managers of impacted teams trained on Oct 27 to notify staff starting Oct 28.
- Coming soon to company reporting, Amazon's largest job cuts since over 27,000 layoffs in 2022–2023 are planned ahead of the Oct 30 earnings, amid last week's AWS outage.
- Looking ahead, Andy Jassy has said, `We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs` as Amazon invests in chips, power and data centres and plans 250,000 seasonal warehouse jobs.
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