Amazon slashed 14,000 white-collar jobs in late October, with CEO Andy Jassy saying the company needed to eliminate excessive bureaucracy by trimming operational levels and reducing the number of managers. That's not our plan," said Beth Galetti, senior vice president of people experience and technology at Amazon. Mr Jassy had said last summer that the increased use of AI tools would lead to more automation of duties, resulting in corporate job losses. On Tuesday night, Amazon appeared to have prematurely alerted Amazon Web Services cloud-computing employees to layoffs planned for Wednesday morning by sending a commiseration email and team-wide meeting invitation hours early. In Slack messages viewed by Reuters, AWS employees who received the email said the Wednesday meeting was almost immediately canceled.

Source: Irish Examiner January 28, 2026 14:14 UTC