There is bad news for employees at Amazon as the company has reportedly planned a second round of layoffs next week, continuing an arrangement to broadly cut off thousands of employees. In late October, the E-commerce giant had planned to let go of some 30,000 corporate workers, Reuters reported, citing anonymous sources. A day after the report, the company announced it was cutting 14,000 white-collar jobs, and hinted that trimming could continue into 2026. 14000 employees to be sackedThe planned job cuts next week could begin as soon as Tuesday and are expected to mirror last year's in size. According to the Seattle online retailer, the previous round of job cuts in October was due to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) software.

Source: News 24 January 23, 2026 04:11 UTC