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Wednesday, January 28, 2026 12:01PM
Amazon is cutting astir 16,000 jobs successful the latest circular of wide layoffs for the tech industry.
Beth Galetti, a elder vice president astatine the ecommerce company, made the announcement Wednesday successful a blog post.
The latest reductions travel a circular of occupation cuts successful October, erstwhile Amazon laid disconnected 14,000 workers.
She said U.S.-based unit would beryllium fixed 90 days to look for a caller relation internally. Those who are unsuccessful oregon don't privation a caller occupation volition beryllium offered severance pay, outplacement services and wellness security benefits, she said.
"While we're making these changes, we'll besides proceed hiring and investing successful strategical areas and functions that are captious to our future," Galetti said.
The layoffs are Amazon's biggest since 2023, erstwhile the institution chopped 27,000 jobs.
Amazon's workforce doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic arsenic millions stayed location and boosted online spending. But successful the pursuing years, large tech and retail companies chopped thousands of jobs to bring spending backmost successful line.
Hiring has stagnated successful the U.S. and successful December, the state added a meager 50,000 jobs, astir unchanged from a downwardly revised fig of 56,000 successful November.
Labor information points to a reluctance by businesses to adhd workers adjacent arsenic economical maturation has picked up. Many companies hired aggressively aft the pandemic and nary longer request to capable much jobs. Others person held backmost owed to wide uncertainty caused by President Donald Trump's shifting tariff policies, elevated inflation, and the dispersed of artificial intelligence, which could change oregon adjacent regenerate immoderate jobs.
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