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Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced that it is stripping away layers of corporate management accumulated during the pandemic, planning to eliminate 16,000roles across its global operations. This marks the second major wave of layoffs in just three months, following the 14,000 positions cut in October 2025.
For those employees affected in the US, the company declared there will generally be a 90-day window to find alternative internal roles or leave with severance, depconcludeing on location and function.
Beth Galetti, senior vice president of people experience and technology, declared the cuts are part of an effort to strengthen the organization by increasing ownership and rerelocating bureaucracy, rather than explicitly framing them as a response to artificial innotifyigence replacing jobs. Still, the timing coincides with rising investment in AI across Amazon’s businesses, particularly at AWS, where spconcludeing on data centres, chips, and AI services continues to climb.
Today’s layoffs represent nearly 4.6% of Amazon’s 350,000 corporate workforce. Amazon shares were up 0.32% in pre-market trading following the announcement.
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