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   Amazon confirms plans to cut 14,000 jobs in a move it says will make the   
   company "even stronger"   
      
   Date:   
   Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:20:19 +0000   
      
   Description:   
   Huge job cuts on the way at Amazon as it looks to shed thousands of employees.   
      
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   Amazon has confirmed plans to cut 14,000 corporate jobs as it looks to    
   operate more effectively.    
      
   In a note first shared with Amazon employees and then published online, the   
   company noted the move would allow it to be "organized more leanly" and seize   
   the opportunity provided by AI.    
      
   Beth Galetti, Senior Vice President of People Experience and Technology,    
   noted the cuts would make Amazon "even stronger", meaning it could shift   
   resources, "to ensure we're investing in our biggest bets and what matters   
   most to our customers' current and future needs".   
      
   Major Amazon job cuts    
      
   The move is reportedly a response to Amazon's overhiring during the pandemic,   
   when demand for all kinds of products spiked, leading to a huge expansion.    
      
   "We're convicted that we need to be organised more leanly, with fewer layers   
   and more ownership, to move as quickly as possible for our customers and   
   business," Galetti added.    
      
   Amazon has around 1.55 million employees across the entire company, but the   
   cuts will affect its 350,000 corporate workers, with report claiming a number   
   of divisions and roles could be hit, with human resources, known as People   
   Experience and Technology (PXT), operations, devices and services; and Amazon   
   Web Services teams all set to be affected.    
      
   The move will be Amazon's largest ever job losses, ahead of the 27,000   
   positions it cut back in 2022 in a bid apparently to save on expenditure, and   
   are slightly better than earlier reports claiming up to 30,000 workers could   
   be let go.    
      
   Company CEO Andy Jassy had warned earlier in 2025 that the rise in AI   
   technology in major corporations such as Amazon would likely lead to job    
   cuts.    
      
   "We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today,   
   and more people doing other types of jobs," he said in a memo sent to Amazon   
   staff June 2025.    
      
   "It's hard to know exactly where this nets out over time, but in the next few   
   years, we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce as we    
   get efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company."    
      
   Jassy added staff who embraced such changes would be "well-positioned" at the   
   company, noting Amazon was already using AI agents in "virtually every corner   
   of the company", adding, "many of these agents have yet to be built, but make   
   no mistake, they're coming and coming fast."    
      
   The news is the latest in a series of layoffs by tech giants in recent months   
   as they take stock of their workforce in the new AI driven world.    
      
   Meta recently cut 600 jobs in its AI division , with Salesforce confirming it   
   had also lost 4000 support jobs in favor of AI tools .    
      
   Around 9,000 Microsoft workers also lost their jobs in July 2025 , with    
   around 6,000 also going in May and several hundred in other, smaller   
   adjustments.    
      
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   Link to news story:   
   https://www.techradar.com/pro/amazon-set-to-cut-up-to-30-000-jobs-as-it-loses-   
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