- More layoffs could come to Amazon, this time to the HR department
- Approximately 27,000 workers have been laid off since 2022
- Amazon is investing up to $10 billion in artificial intelligence and data centers
Amazon workers could face another round of layoffs with up to 15% of its human resources department at risk. Fortune reports have stated. Sources confirm that the People eXperience Technology (Amazon HR) team is likely the most affected, but other consumer companies are also in the line of fire.
Amazon’s workforce has been steadily declining since late 2022, with around 27,000 employees laid off across various departments. This continues, especially after Amazon recently confirmed that it hopes to eliminate human workers and replace them with AI.
It seems clear that Amazon is reducing its workforce spending to shore up $100 billion in spending on data centers and infrastructure to support artificial intelligence and data processing, leading the company to a 32% global cloud market share by the first quarter of 2025.
The priority of AI
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who has overseen some recent dramatic cuts as well as huge data center spending, wrote in a company-wide email, also posted on Amazon’s corporate blog;
“We expect this to reduce our total corporate workforce as we realize efficiency gains by using AI extensively across the company.”
“Those who embrace this change, become familiar with AI, help us build and improve our AI capabilities internally and deliver for customers, will be well positioned to have a big impact and help us reinvent the company.”
This is part of an industry-wide pattern, with Intel planning to cut about 20% of its workforce, or about 25,000 employees in total. In addition to this, Microsoft laid off approximately 9,000 of its staff as it boosts investment in AI.
TechRadar Pro We reached out to Amazon for more information but have not yet received a response.
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