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Amazon.com will terminate about 16 000 corporate employees, ratcheting up efforts to streamline bureaucracy amid rising competition over artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n
The company will offer US-based employees 90 days to search for a new role internally, as well as severance and other transition support, Beth Galetti, Amazon\u2019s senior vice president of people experience and technology said Wednesday in a blog post.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been working to strengthen our organization by reducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing bureaucracy,\u201d Galetti said. She said it\u2019s \u201cnot our plan\u201d to announce broad staff cuts every few months and said the company would continue to \u201cmake adjustments as appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The eliminations take Amazon\u2019s announced job cuts to 30 000 in three months after an initial wave in October. Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy has repeatedly said he\u2019s determined to cut management layers that began to concern executives after a pandemic-era hiring binge. Last year, he warned employees that AI will shrink the workforce as Amazon automates more of its operations.<\/p>\n
While the company employed about 1.57 million people as of September 30, most of them work in warehouses. The corporate workforce comprises about 350 000 personnel, meaning the latest cuts represent about 4.6% of that headcount.<\/p>\n
Employees were informed about the cuts earlier on Wednesday, though some had been given a heads up that they were coming. Amazon Senior Vice President Colleen Aubrey prematurely scheduled a meeting titled \u201cProject Dawn\u201d that referred to \u201cimpacted colleagues\u201d based in the US, Canada and Costa Rica. The email, which said \u201cchanges like this are hard on everyone,\u201d quickly spread on internal message boards and social media sites like Reddit where workers were discussing the anticipated job cuts.<\/p>\n
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A number of tech companies have started the year by announcing layoffs. Meta Platforms said it would eliminate more than 1,000 jobs from its Reality Labs division to redirect resources to AI wearables and phone features. Pinterest Inc. said Tuesday that it plans to cut \u201cless than 15%\u201d of its workforce and will reduce office space, also in an effort to shift resources toward AI. Autodesk said it will cut about 1,000 positions.<\/p>\n
ASML Holding NV \u2014 one of the key beneficiaries of the AI boom as the sole supplier of the advanced machines that can make Nvidia Corp.\u2019s GPU chips \u2014 said on Wednesday it was cutting about 1 700 jobs. The company is aiming to reduce complexity and become more agile, even after reporting record fourth-quarter orders.<\/p>\n
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