- More layoffs may be coming to Amazon, this time for the HR department
- Around 27,000 workers have been released since 2022
- Amazon is investing up to $10 billion in artificial intelligence and data centers
Amazon workers could face another round of layoffs with as much as 15% of their human resources department at risk, Fortune reports. Sources confirm that the People eXperience Technology team (Amazon’s HR) is likely to be hardest hit, but other consumer companies are also in the firing line.
Amazon’s workforce has been steadily declining since the end of 2022, with around 27,000 employees laid off across a number of departments. This continues, especially with Amazon recently confirming that it expects to cut human workers and replace them with artificial intelligence.
It seems clear that Amazon is reducing its workforce spending to support the $100 billion spent on data centers and infrastructure to support artificial intelligence and computing, pushing the company to a 32% global cloud market share during Q1 2025.
The AI priority
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who has overseen the dramatic cuts as well as huge data center spending, wrote in a company-wide email, also published on Amazon’s corporate blog;
“We expect this to reduce our overall workforce as we achieve efficiency gains by using AI widely across the business.”
“Those who embrace this change, become familiar with AI, help us build and improve our AI capabilities internally and deliver to customers will be well positioned to have a big impact and help us reinvent the business.”
This is part of an industry-wide pattern in which Intel plans to cut about 20% of its workforce, or about 25,000 employees in total. Alongside this, Microsoft let go of around 9,000 of its staff as it pushes to invest in artificial intelligence.
TechRadar Pro contacted Amazon for more information, but we have yet to receive a response.
Source: Fortune
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