{"id":207354,"date":"2026-01-28T06:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T11:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/amazon-will-cut-16000-jobs-in-latest-layoffs\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T09:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:25:07","slug":"amazon-will-cut-16000-jobs-in-latest-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/amazon-will-cut-16000-jobs-in-latest-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Will Cut 16,000 Jobs In Latest Layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon Will Cut 16,000 Jobs In Latest Layoffs<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/siladityaray\/2026\/01\/28\/amazon-says-it-will-cut-around-16000-staffers-in-latest-layoffs\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-01-28 06:46:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.forbes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Topline<\/h2>\n

Amazon announced plans to lay off around 16,000 corporate employees early on Wednesday, in an expansion of its restructuring efforts, which began last year when the company laid off 14,000 workers after its CEO flagged that expanded adoption of artificial intelligence would lead to a shrinking of the tech giant\u2019s workforce.<\/p>\n

The latest round of terminations come after Amazon laid of 14,000 workers in October last year.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Key Facts<\/h2>\n

The job cuts announcement was made in a blog post by Amazon\u2019s Beth Galetti, Amazon\u2019s senior vice president of people experience and technology. <\/p>\n

The cuts will impact 16,000 workers and Amazon was offering most of its U.S.-based employees \u201c90 days to look for a new role internally,\u201d the blog post said.<\/p>\n

Staffers who are unable to find another role and those \u201cwho choose not to look for one,\u201d will be offered \u201cseverance pay, outplacement services and health insurance benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n

Galetti wrote that the company was \u201cworking to strengthen our organization by reducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing bureaucracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

What Did Amazon Ceo Jassy Say About Ai Impacting Jobs At The Company?<\/h2>\n

In a blog post addressing the company\u2019s employees last year, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the e-commerce giant\u2019s increasing adoption of AI will impact jobs. \u201cAs we roll out more Generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done. We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs. It\u2019s hard to know exactly where this nets out over time, but in the next few years, we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Key Background<\/h2>\n

This is the second round of major layoffs undertaken by Amazon in the past few months. Last October, the company announced it was cutting 14,000 jobs. At the time, Galetti cited a note by Jassy…<\/p>\n

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