{"id":111539,"date":"2026-01-24T23:33:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T23:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/111539\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T23:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T23:33:06","slug":"report-amazon-continues-layoffs-in-pursuit-of-30000-job-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/111539\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Amazon continues layoffs in pursuit of 30,000 job cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Amazon will begin another round of layoffs next week as it continues its pursuit of 30,000 job cuts, Reuters reported Friday<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The news follows an October round of layoffs that saw 14,000 white-collar employees notified of their job loss, also first reported by Reuters<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Amazon did not respond to an Advance\/SILive.com request for comment by the time of publication, and declined comment to Reuters.<\/p>\n

While most of the tech giant\u2019s 1.5 million employees work in warehouses and fulfillment centers like the giant developments on Staten Island\u2019s West Shore, the corporate job cuts represent about a 10% trim of Amazon\u2019s corporate work force.<\/p>\n

The company has blamed the growth of artificial intelligence for the layoffs, with Senior Vice President Beth Galetti writing in an October corporate letter<\/a> that the \u201cgeneration of AI is the most transformative technology we\u2019ve seen since the Internet, and it\u2019s enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cuts reported by Reuters Friday are expected to impact the company\u2019s Amazon Web Services, retail, Prime Video and human resources employees.<\/p>\n

Layoffs.fyi<\/a>, a website that tracks job cuts in the tech industry, reported nearly 124,000 job losses last year across 269 companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Amazon will begin another round of layoffs next week as it continues its pursuit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-111539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}