❓WHAT HAPPENED: Amazon is set to cut up to 30,000 corporate jobs, amounting to ten percent of its corporate workforce.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Amazon corporate employees, including those in human resources, services, and operations divisions.
📍WHEN & WHERE: Job cuts will begin this week, with notifications starting Tuesday, across Amazon’s global corporate offices.
🎯IMPACT: This marks the largest job cut at Amazon since late 2022 and signals a shift towards automation and AI integration within the company.
Online retail giant Amazon is preparing to cut up to 30,000 white-collar jobs, representing ten percent of its corporate workforce—though a much smaller share of the retailer’s total 1.5 million employees. These cuts, Amazon says, are part of the company’s efforts to reduce expenses following a hiring surge during the pandemic.
The roles being eliminated will impact several divisions, including human resources, services, and operations. Amazon employees in affected teams were instructed to undergo training on how to communicate the layoffs effectively, with emails to impacted employees scheduled to begin on Tuesday.
This reduction marks Amazon’s largest job cut since late 2022, when 27,000 roles were eliminated. The company has been reducing its workforce across multiple departments over recent years, while also advancing its use of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to streamline operations.
The National Pulse reported last week that Amazon aims to replace up to 600,000 roles with AI-powered robots as part of its long-term goal to automate 75 percent of its operations. Additionally, Amazon has introduced an AI seller assistant on its platform, which is currently in beta testing.
Despite these cuts, Amazon plans to hire 250,000 workers for the holiday season, primarily in fulfillment and delivery roles. However, the company declined to specify how many of these positions would become permanent.
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