{"id":208412,"date":"2026-01-31T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/amazons-layoffs-are-staggering-weve-seen-this-before\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T05:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:15:16","slug":"amazons-layoffs-are-staggering-weve-seen-this-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/amazons-layoffs-are-staggering-weve-seen-this-before\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon\u2019s layoffs are staggering. We\u2019ve seen this before"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon\u2019s layoffs are staggering. We\u2019ve seen this before<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/01\/31\/tech\/amazon-layoffs-january-tech-changes<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-01-31 05:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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

\n Big Tech continues to wrestle with mass layoffs, most recently with Amazon\u2019s announcement to slash 16,000 jobs. It\u2019s a trend that started long before the AI race: organizational change brought by the arrival of new technology.\n <\/p>\n

\n Tech giants flourish or falter based on their decisions to overhaul themselves, often leaving tens of thousands of workers to pay the price. The 1990s and 2000s saw a wave of layoffs from industry stalwarts like IBM, Hewlett Packard and Microsoft, which embraced technological advancements like personal computers, mobile devices and the cloud.\n <\/p>\n

\n Amazon\u2019s staggering jobs cuts this week, the second wave since October, brings the commerce giant\u2019s recent layoffs to roughly 9% of its corporate workforce.\n <\/p>\n

\n While Amazon\u2019s layoffs aren\u2019t a direct result of AI, they\u2019re tangentially related. Advancements in AI have sparked widespread concern about the future of jobs, as fellow tech giants Microsoft, Meta and Verizon all made layoffs last year.\n <\/p>\n

\n AI is the \u201cmost transformative technology we\u2019ve seen since the internet,\u201d Beth Galetti, senior vice president of people experience and technology at Amazon, said when announcing layoffs in October. She added that the company needs \u201cfewer layers\u201d to \u201cmove as quickly as possible.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n In her memo explaining the new round of layoffs, Galetti wrote that Amazon aims to \u201cstrengthen\u201d the organization by \u201creducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing bureaucracy.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Companies are likely shifting resources to areas like data, automation and analytics amid the AI race, according to Zeki Pagda, an assistant professor at Rutgers Business School.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cAmazon cannot easily retrain a workforce built for manual logistics or legacy retail systems into one that builds generative AI agents,\u201d…<\/p>\n

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