Amazon It said on Wednesday it planned to cut about 16,000 corporate jobs, the second round of large-scale layoffs since October last year.

exist a blog postthe company wrote that the layoffs were continuous efforts “Strengthening our organization by reducing layers, increasing ownership and eliminating bureaucracy.” This is consistent with the push heavy investment in artificial intelligence.

The layoffs come months after layoffs in October, When 14,000 employees Fired by Amazon employee. At the time, the company said the layoffs would continue in 2026 as it identified “more places to reduce layer count.”

Beth Galetti, Amazon’s senior vice president of people experience and technology, did not rule out more layoffs in the future but said the company was not trying to create a “new rhythm” of large-scale layoffs every few months.

“This was not our plan,” Galetti wrote. “But as we always do, each team will continue to evaluate the ownership, speed and capabilities of inventions for customers and make appropriate adjustments.”

Tuesdaysome employees in Amazon’s cloud division received an apparently erroneous email acknowledging the company’s “organizational changes.” The note cited a post by Galetti and said Amazon notified “affected colleagues across our organization.”

As of the end of the third quarter, Amazon had approximately 1.58 million employees. This number is primarily made up of warehouse and logistics workers.

Since October, it has cut 30,000 jobs, or about 10% of its corporate and technology workforce of about 350,000 people.

Amazon has been slashing its workforce over the past few years. company laid off The company is cutting more than 27,000 jobs between 2022 and 2023, with smaller layoffs across organizations in 2024.

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