E-commerce giant Amazon to remove 16,000 employees globally

E-commerce giant Amazon on Wednesday said it was laying off 16,000 employees globally as part of “additional organisational changes”.

This is the second major round of layoffs at the company in about three months in the AI era.

Beth Galetti, Senior Vice President of People Experience and Technology at Amazon, said that “we’re making additional organisational changes across Amazon that will impact some of our teammates”.

In a blog post, she said that “I recognise this is



difficult news, which is why I’m sharing what’s happening and why”.

“As I shared in October, we’ve been working to strengthen our organisation by reducing layers, increasing ownership and removing bureaucracy. While many teams finalised their organisational changes in October, other teams did not complete that work until now,” said Galetti.

The reductions “we are making today will impact approximately 16,000 roles across Amazon, and we’re again working hard to support everyone whose role is impacted”.