"It's been a few weeks since Amazon announced plans to cut 14,000 corporate jobs, but many laid-off employees are still coming to terms with it. While the original announcement cited a need to be leaner in the age of AI, CEO Andy Jassy later said, "It's about culture." Business Insider spoke with six former Amazon employees who lost their jobs in the latest round of layoffs. One was an anonymous single parent who said they'd just moved to Seattle in June due to the company's return-to-office mandate - only to be laid off. Another, an anonymous former product manager, said he got wind of the layoff timing and set his alarm for 3 a.m. that day to check his email."
"I woke up to a 6 a.m. automated text from Amazon telling me to check my email for a message about my role. When I tried to log in to my work account, I received authorization denied errors. At that moment, I was pretty sure I had been laid off. I received an email at 5 a.m. EST from HR advising that I'd been laid off. I got an automated text message from Amazon telling me to check my personal email before clocking in, and then I saw an email from HR. I was home at the time."
Fourteen thousand corporate positions at Amazon were eliminated, and many affected employees are still processing the impact. Several workers received early-morning automated texts or HR emails notifying them of their termination and immediately lost access to work accounts. The sudden timing and unexpected nature of the cuts compounded stress for those who had recently relocated due to return-to-office mandates. The difficult labor market has made securing new roles harder, and personal circumstances such as single-parent status intensified the disruption. Multiple former employees described shock, logistical strain, and emotional fallout after the layoffs.
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