"reducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing bureaucracy."
"While we're making these changes, we'll also continue hiring and investing in strategic areas and functions that are critical to our future,"
"'organizational changes'"
Amazon is slashing about 16,000 corporate jobs in a second round of mass layoffs within three months. The company plans to use generative artificial intelligence to replace corporate workers and has been reducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing bureaucracy. The firm did not specify which business units or locations would be impacted. The reductions follow an October round that eliminated 14,000 positions, with some organizational changes completing then and others finishing now. U.S.-based staff will have 90 days to seek internal roles; those who do not secure new jobs will receive severance, outplacement services, and health insurance benefits. Amazon will continue hiring and investing in strategic areas, and CEO Andy Jassy anticipated AI-driven reductions to the corporate workforce in coming years. The layoffs are the largest since 2023, when 27,000 jobs were cut, after the workforce expanded during the pandemic.
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