Amazon employees hit by fresh job cuts across several teams
Amazon has initiated a new round of layoffs affecting fewer than 1,000 employees across various departments, including retail and engineering. This follows significant workforce reductions earlier in the year as the company shifts its capital toward AI infrastructure and data centers.
Why it matters
The cuts reflect a broader corporate strategy of aggressive cost-cutting in traditional business units to fund massive investments in artificial intelligence.
The Amazon headquarters in the South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle David Ryder/Bloomberg via Getty Images Amazon had fresh job cuts across several teams on Tuesday. Fewer than 1,000 people were affected by the layoffs. The cuts follow roughly 30,000 job eliminations late last year and early this year. Amazon employees reported a new round of job cuts across several parts of the company on Tuesday. A group of employees wrote in an internal Slack channel that they had received emails telling them their roles had been eliminated, according to messages viewed by Business Insider. The channel, which had nearly 37,000 members, quickly filled with questions about severance, access to internal job postings, and whether further notifications were still coming. The messages suggest cuts across several business units, including customer service, marketplace support, and engineering roles in Amazon’s retail business, as well as in India and the UK.
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