Amazon to cut 16,000 corporate jobs
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In an announcement posted by Beth Galetti, Amazon’s Senior Vice President of People Experience and Technology, on Wednesday, the company said the layoffs are part of an ongoing process to reduce layers, increase ownership and remove bureaucracy from the company.
Amazon is laying off another 16,000 corporate employees globally, the company confirmed Wednesday morning, the second phase in a restructuring that now totals 30,000 positions — marking the largest workforce reduction in the company's history.
Amazon announces another mass layoff as CEO Andy Jassy takes aim at bureaucracy and seeks a cultural reset.
Amazon announced a second major round of layoffs at the company in three months.
Amazon will cut about 14,000 corporate jobs as the online retail giant ramps up spending on artificial intelligence. In June CEO Andy Jassy, who has aggressively sought to cut costs since becoming CEO in 2021, said that he anticipated generative AI would ...