Amazon said on Tuesday that it plans to reduce its corporate workforce by 14,000 jobs as it seeks to reduce bureaucracy, remove layers and invest more in its AI strategy.
This marks the e-commerce giant’s second-largest job cuts since it slashed rel=”nofollow” href=”https://apnews.com/article/amazon-layoffs-jobs-cuts-jassy-0e857f39702de134c8f677c5b5731688″>22,000 jobs in 2022. Amazon had rel=”nofollow” href=”https://assets.aboutamazon.com/89/0f/be7269b44b25b166030d7b2bfe27/2024-eeo1-amazon-report.pdf”>nearly 1.2 million employees as of October 31, 2024, of which more than 360,000 were in its corporate division, in administrative, sales and executive roles.
In a rel=”nofollow” href=”https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-workforce-reduction”>memo shared with employees, Beth Galetti, senior vice president of people experience and technology at…
