"are a continuation of this work to get even stronger by further reducing bureaucracy, removing layers, and shifting resources to ensure we're investing in our biggest bets and what matters most to our customers' current and future needs."
"I see this as mainly a correction to pandemic-era dynamics rather than some new thing like AI that's striking these companies,"
Amazon is cutting about 14,000 corporate roles, representing roughly 0.9% of its approximately 1.6 million employees at the end of 2024. The company expanded rapidly during and after the pandemic, growing from over a million employees in 2020 to about 1.6 million in 2021 and roughly tripling its workforce between 2017 and 2024. Leadership framed the layoffs as efforts to reduce bureaucracy, remove layers, and shift resources toward the company’s biggest bets and customer needs. Other large firms, including UPS, have also cut thousands of roles. An economist called the reductions mainly a correction for pandemic-era overhiring, with AI as a plausible but smaller factor.
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