{"id":245016,"date":"2025-10-27T22:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T22:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/245016\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T22:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T22:23:09","slug":"amazon-plans-to-cut-30000-corporate-jobs-in-response-to-pandemic-overhiring-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/245016\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon plans to cut 30,000 corporate jobs in response to pandemic overhiring | Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon is preparing to lay off tens of thousands of corporate workers, reversing its pandemic hiring spree. The cuts come months after the retail giant\u2019s CEO warned white-collar employees<\/a> their jobs could be taken by artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

The Seattle-based technology firm is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning Tuesday, media outlets including Reuters<\/a> and the Wall Street Journal<\/a> reported, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter, as it tries to cut costs and undo the vast recruitment drive it embarked on at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, which unleashed an extraordinary \u2013 but fleeting \u2013 surge in demand for online shopping.<\/p>\n

While the layoffs would represent a small portions of Amazon\u2019s sprawling global workforce of 1.55 million employees, they would hit about 10% of its roughly 350,000 corporate employees. CNBC<\/a> called it the largest layoff in the company\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Shares in the firm, which is scheduled to report quarterly earnings later this week, rose 1.2% on Monday.<\/p>\n

Other giants of the internet have likewise backtracked on the major hiring undertaken during the coronavirus pandemic. Microsoft; Meta, parent of Whatsapp, Instagram and Facebook; and Alphabet, parent of Google and YouTube, have all laid off tens of thousands of workers in the past three years.<\/p>\n

Back in June, the group\u2019s CEO, Andy Jassy, told employees that AI agents \u2013 tools that carry out tasks autonomously \u2013 and generative AI systems such as chatbots would require fewer employees in some areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s 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,\u201d Jassy wrote in a memo to staff.<\/p>\n

In recent years, Amazon has been trimming smaller numbers of jobs across multiple divisions, including devices, communications, podcasting and others.<\/p>\n

This week\u2019s wave of cuts is expected to affect a wide variety of divisions within Amazon, including human resources, known as people experience and technology, devices and services and operations, among others. Fortune reported<\/a> that as many as 15% of the firm\u2019s HR roles could be hit, citing multiple sources familiar with Amazon\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n

Managers of affected teams were asked to undergo training on Monday for how to communicate with staff following notifications that will start going out via email tomorrow morning, Reuters reported, citing unnamed sources.<\/p>\n

Jassy has been undertaking an initiative to reduce what he has described as an excess of bureaucracy at the company, including by reducing the number of managers, and introduced an anonymous complaint line for claims of inefficiencies that has elicited about 1,500 responses and more than 450 process changes, he said earlier this year.<\/p>\n

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