Amazon has announced plans to lay off approximately 16,000 corporate employees globally as part of a broader organizational restructuring. On January 28th, 2025, Amazon employees received a message from their CEO,

Amazon plans to lay off 16,000 employees, impacting teams like AWS and Alexa. An employee used an AI tool to list potentially affected areas.

As Amazon confirms 16,000 corporate layoffs without naming affected teams, an employee quietly used an internal AI tool to track signals from workplace conversations, adding to growing anxiety across the company.

Reports of Amazon's plans to cut thousands of jobs were confirmed Oct. 28 by a memo shared with employees and posted on the company website. The memo, signed by Beth Galetti, Amazon's senior vice president of people experience and technology, said that the ...

As if there weren’t enough people out of work, Amazon has reportedly laid off tens of thousands of employees from its corporate operations, including one woman currently on vacation. On Tuesday, October 28, the tech giant began laying off nearly 14,000 ...

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Over 1,000 Amazon employees have anonymously signed an open letter warning that the company’s allegedly “all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development” could cause “staggering damage to democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth,” an ...

*More than 1,000 Amazon employees have expressed concerns about the company’s fast-moving AI initiatives. As Newsweek reports, the open letter, addressed to CEO Andy Jassy and senior leadership, called for a more cautious strategy that incorporates ...