Posted on 10/27/2025 3:24:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Summary
AMZN.O is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning on Tuesday, as the company pares expenses and compensates for overhiring during the peak demand of the pandemic, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The figure represents a small percentage of Amazon's 1.55 million total employees, but nearly 10% of its roughly 350,000 corporate employees. This would mark Amazon's largest job cut since late 2022, when it started to eliminate around 27,000 positions.
An Amazon spokesperson declined to comment.
Amazon has been trimming smaller numbers of jobs over the past two years across multiple divisions, including devices, communications and podcasting. The cuts beginning this week may affect a variety of divisions, including human resources, known as People Experience and Technology or PXT; operations, devices and services; and Amazon Web Services, the people said.
Managers of impacted teams were asked to undergo training on Monday for how to communicate with staff following email notifications that will start going out on Tuesday morning, the people said.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is undertaking an initiative to reduce what he has described as an excess of bureaucracy, including by reducing the number of managers. He installed an anonymous complaint line for identifying inefficiencies that has elicited some 1,500 responses and over 450 process changes, he said earlier this year.
Jassy said in June that the increased use of artificial intelligence tools would likely lead to further job cuts, particularly through automating repetitive and routine tasks.
"This latest move signals that Amazon is likely realizing enough AI-driven productivity gains within corporate teams to support a substantial reduction in force," said Sky Canaves, an eMarketer analyst. "Amazon has..."
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An “ HR Dept. “ and A-I are not compatible, are they?
HR Departments are DEI on steroids.
First little mom and pop stores on a main street.
The freeways and opening of malls puts most of them out of business.
Then fickle young people and then adults turn against the popular malls which go into decline and disrepair and mostly close down because “everybody’s shopping online and getting Amazon deliveries now.”
Then Amazon cuts down employees.
Next: AI and robots don’t need stores and don’t need leftover humans around.
Should have married Jasmine Crockett for a power couple move.
Jassy and Jazzy.
Where does this lead?
Most of humanity doing service jobs to keep the robot doing the manufacturing, delivering, repairing?
Lots of high paying service jobs like educating and caring for children, sports, lawyers?
I keep wondering..
How will muzzies deal with AI?
Lawyers...won’t need too many lawyers imho. As for education individualized online education pkgs could become the norm...and parents getting more into small school organizations of their own.
Re: Amazon
We were trying to determine how to gift an Amazon Prime Membership. The internet has a plethora of pages, links, methods. None of them, even the ones at Amazon.com, work.
So......... I decided to get to a real person. I accessed the Chat feature on Amazon, and every time they requested a topic, I typed in “human.” Eventually, the Amazon algorithm figured out what I wanted, a living, breathing person, and we continued.
The living breathing person did not know, at first, how to send the Amazon Prime Membership gift to someone. After a few back and forth messages, he asked for some more time to “investigate.” He finally returned, and explained that he had actually reached out to some higher ups, but the only way is to provide a regular, generic Amazon Gift Card in the amount needed for a Membership. He apologized profusely. I ended the chat by mentioning that it was not the most user-friendly method.
People-be aware. This could hurt us if we’re not ready for it. The MSM will run with it and the Bill Clinton clones will say worst economy in the last 50 years. All it takes is a wide gap between rich and not so rich. So even if everyone is ok the resentment factor can always come out front.
10% job cuts should happen periodically to keep any organization vibrant.
It should be done in government too.
I think Al Gore called it “sprawl.”
;)
I know! Those pesky computers put out of business the ever reliable typewriter. Damned be efficiency! Damned be speed to market and sale!
Advancement just sucks! Still wish we were driving those 1970 rust buckets Dad spoke ever so highly of that we were pouring a quart of oil down a week!
Robots
Amazon should have its own AI and encourage its employees to use it so people can teach it their jobs so it can get rid of the human employee.
What makes you think they're not already doing exactly that?
We were screeching the very same things about…assembly lines… computers…etc…yet, both created efficiencies, opportunities and a large leap in lifestyle and wealth.
It’s like we are living back in Salem during the witch trials.
HERESY!
How will muzzies deal with AI?
Butlerian jihad, no doubt.
Well...that took me down a new path...not a Dune follower
HAHAHAHA.....
RE: Advancement just sucks!
I’m the most backward person on FR as to technology. Have never once downloaded a song on Spotify or others. Never have done a bluetooth connection. I use physical dvds and cds. My car has a place for a usb but I’ve never used it. I own a minute phone in case of car trouble away from home.
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