Amazon to cut 14K roles in effort to stay ‘nimble’

Amazon is reducing its corporate workforce by about 14,000 roles, the company announced Tuesday in an internal note to employees from Amazon Senior Vice President of People Experience and Technology Beth Galetti. The company will notify impacted teams and individuals Tuesday, but did not provide details about the types of positions impacted.

Amazon’s latest round of layoffs builds on CEO Andy Jassy’s remarks to employees in June that the company will need fewer people doing some existing jobs as generative AI continues to advance. 

Galetti told employees on Tuesday that the workforce cuts are intended to reduce bureaucracy, remove corporate layers and shift resources as the company works to stay “nimble.”

“Some may ask why we’re reducing roles when the company is performing well,” Galetti said in her note to employees. “This generation of AI is the most transformative technology we’ve seen since the Internet, and it’s enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before (in existing market segments and altogether new ones).”

Amazon to cut 14K roles in effort to stay ‘nimble’ | Retail Dive

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