Amazon cuts about 16,000 corporate jobs in the latest round of layoffs

[dalton99a]

https://apnews.com/article/amazon-layoffs-job-cuts-tech-74387fae2313ff7b0b1e638c00863443

Amazon cuts about 16,000 corporate jobs in the latest round of layoffs
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated 6:45 AM CST, January 28, 2026

Amazon is slashing about 16,000 corporate jobs in the second round of mass layoffs for the ecommerce company in three months.

The tech giant has said it plans to use generative artificial intelligence to replace corporate workers. It has also been reducing a workforce that swelled during the pandemic.

Beth Galetti, a senior vice president at Amazon, said in a blog post Wednesday that the company has been “reducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing bureaucracy.”

The company did not say what business units would be impacted, or where the job cuts would occur.

The latest reductions follow a round of job cuts in October, when Amazon said it was laying off 14,000 workers. While some Amazon units completed those “organizational changes” in October, others did not finish until now, Galetti said.

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[Jbraybarten]

1. Remember when every city tried to sell their soul for "HQ2?"

[haele]

2. AI is starting to replace the service workforce and upper levels, just as predicted ..

Who needs a legal representative coordinator in marketing and sales, a regional logistics department, or complaint reviewing staff in customer service, anyway?
AI can do all that work, and distill any important metrics into an easy to understand review for the quarterly stakeholders meeting, to boot.

[Johonny]

3. Ai is getting better at programming

It's taking away entry level programming jobs. The jobs that were supposed to be the jobs of the future.

[dalton99a]

5. +1

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/computer-science-dream-become-nightmare-185942789.html

The computer science dream has become a nightmare
Connie Loizos
August 10, 2025

The coding-equals-prosperity promise has officially collapsed.

Fresh computer science graduates are facing unemployment rates of 6.1% to 7.5% — more than double what biology and art history majors are experiencing, according to a recent Federal Reserve Bank of New York study. A crushing New York Times piece highlights what’s happening on the ground.

The individual stories are surreal. Manasi Mishra, 21, graduated from Purdue after being promised six-figure starting salaries, only to receive a single interview, at Chipotle (she didn’t get the job.) Zach Taylor has applied to nearly 6,000 tech jobs since graduating from Oregon State in 2023, landing just 13 interviews and zero offers. He was even rejected by McDonald’s for “lack of experience.”

The alleged culprits? AI programming tools that are eliminating junior positions, while big names like Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft slash jobs. Students say they’re trapped in an “AI doom loop” — using AI to mass-apply while companies use AI to auto-reject them, sometimes within minutes.

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[Johnny2X2X]

11. I find this topic fascinating

I am an engineer and towards the end of my career, so seeing SW engineers struggling to find jobs is still shocking to me, We're using AI to analyze data sets right now, and coders are using it to augment code everywhere, but I think most of the people I work with have so many varied skills that we're years from being replaced yet.

Of course, you still need all of these skills to know how to interact with AI. And I would still encourage anyone to get an engineering degree, but it does seem like pure coders are starting to struggle to find jobs.

While there are new challenges, I do tend to sense an air of anti intellectualism in a lot of these articles about AI replacing highly skilled technical jobs. Get that engineering degree still, you're still much better off with it and it is still worth the cost. We have a shortage of tech workers in this country and that's not going to change quickly even if AI helps ease the shortage.

This discussion ends up being about trades too. "Learn to code" has been replaced by "learn a trade" on the Right. As if the trades haven't been harmed by the policies of the Right for generations now. My dad was a diemaker at a GM stamping plant for 40 years, it's a profession that provided us a good middle class life. But those same diemakers aren't doing as well as he did adjusted for inflation because of the Right's constant attacks on unions and workers. But no one asks, "OK, what if we have 5 million more electricians, plumbers, and HVAC people, what will become of those professions?" Well, they will pay an awful lot less for one thing. And they won't be any less back breaking.

I don't have the answers, no one does, but I am pretty sure the rich are going to share the spoils of AI with the rest of us.

[Layzeebeaver]

4. Someone has to pay for the Malaria Documentary...

Might as well be Amazon Corporate staff.

[MagickMuffin]

6. DOGE comes courting Amazon: "reducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing bureaucracy."

Increasing Ownership?

Does that mean more bezo's running amok?

[Johnny2X2X]

7. Amazon is a tech company

They have always been at the forefront of new technology. Not a surprise that they're one of the first big companies effectively leveraging AI to cut jobs.

They're going to need a core group of AI savvy engineers, but that's not going to be 10s of thousands of people.

And they are rapidly automating their warehouse and shipping operations.

[Initech]

8. Golden age, yo!

[Emile]

9. Won't be long, and nobody will have a job.

Who will buy their shit then?

[Ars Longa]

10. Amazon cuts about 16,000 jobs!

But has $75M for the Melania movie.