Amazon\u2019s latest round of brutal layoffs included several hundred employees in New York, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n
Some 135 corporate Amazon employees who worked at 1140 Broadway received pink slips in January, according to a state Department of Labor filing this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Another 165 Amazon workers in New York were axed, with the government records expected to hit the system within the coming weeks, a source familiar with the filings told The Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Amazon laid off 135 employees who worked at 1440 Broadway. Google Maps<\/p>\n
They\u2019re all part of 16,000 layoffs announced last month<\/a>. In October, the e-commerce giant slashed another 14,000 corporate jobs<\/a> \u2014 part of a restructuring plan stemming from investments in artificial intelligence and what experts described as over-hiring during the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n The company\u2019s CEO Andy Jassy has slashed nearly 10% of Amazon\u2019s workforce in a three-month span.<\/p>\n Last year, he said new tech could create new job opportunities \u2013 though he also admitted it could bring \u201cefficiency gains\u201d by helping to reduce the overall workforce.<\/p>\n \u201cWe will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today,\u201d Jassy wrote in a memo<\/a> in June.\u00a0<\/p>\n Amazon is shedding some 300 jobs in New York as part of the 16,000 job reductions it announced in January. REUTERS<\/p>\n \u201cIn the next few years, we expect that [AI] will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Amazon did not announce the locations it targeted for layoffs, so the government filings are the only indication of where the losses took place.<\/p>\n The company declined to comment on the Department of Labor filings.<\/p>\n Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy, has said that Amazon \u201cwill need fewer people\u201d as it rolls out artificial intelligence. Getty Images for Amazon Web Services<\/p>\n