{"id":440,"date":"2025-10-30T16:51:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T08:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.finndy.com\/?p=440"},"modified":"2025-10-30T16:51:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T08:51:25","slug":"amazon-to-cut-14000-corporate-jobs-amid-ai-focused-restructuring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finndy.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/30\/amazon-to-cut-14000-corporate-jobs-amid-ai-focused-restructuring\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon to cut 14,000 corporate jobs amid AI-focused restructuring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amazon said Tuesday that it is planning to reduce its corporate workforce by about 14,000 positions as part of a broader effort to streamline operations, eliminate bureaucracy and accelerate investment in artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The move marks the e-commerce giant&#8217;s second-largest round of layoffs after it cut around 22,000 jobs in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a memo to employees, Beth Galetti, Amazon&#8217;s senior vice president of people experience and technology, said the decision aims to make the company &#8220;even stronger&#8221; by reallocating resources toward its &#8220;biggest bets.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This generation of AI is the most transformative technology we&#8217;ve seen since the Internet,&#8221; Galetti wrote, adding that it is enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before, both in existing market segments and entirely new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a June memo, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the company would require fewer employees as it deploys more AI tools. &#8220;As we roll out more Generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done,&#8221; Jassy wrote. &#8220;We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon said Tuesday that it is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[24,55,59],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-companies","category-policy-impact","tag-ai","tag-amazon","tag-job"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finndy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finndy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finndy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finndy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finndy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.finndy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/www.finndy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finndy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finndy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finndy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finndy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}