Amazon Announces Major Workforce Reduction
(MENAFN) US-based retail and technology powerhouse Amazon has revealed plans to eliminate thousands of positions, attributing the decision to organizational restructuring and an increased emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI).
The company stated it will dismiss approximately 14,000 corporate employees—representing a 4% decrease in its office staff—according to an announcement released on Tuesday.
The statement highlighted that AI is “enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before.”
Employees across the United States, Canada, and Europe have reportedly been notified about the layoffs, as noted in internal Slack communications obtained by Business Insider.
This marks Amazon’s most substantial wave of job cuts since 2023, when the corporation terminated 27,000 roles worldwide.
Since 2024, the tech leader has invested around $40 billion in four data center initiatives across the US, bolstering its infrastructure to rival industry competitors such as OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Meta.
Earlier this month, Senator Bernie Sanders—the ranking member of the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions—cautioned that technological advancements are often utilized to boost corporate profits and centralize wealth.
He criticized executives who simultaneously announce large-scale automation investments alongside significant layoffs and other cost-reduction strategies.
Amazon’s workforce reduction aligns with a broader corporate movement in which major enterprises are cutting tens of thousands of jobs while increasing their reliance on automation.
According to figures from the tracking platform Layoffs.fyi, nearly 113,000 technology professionals have been dismissed across 218 tech companies globally this year.
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