Amazon said it is laying off about 14,000 white-collar employees as it prepares to focus more on AI.
The tech giant is reducing its corporate workforce by roughly 4%, offering most of the staffers 90 days to find a new role internally.
“This generation of AI is the most transformative technology we’ve seen since the internet, and it’s enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before (in existing market segments and altogether new ones),” said Beth Galetti, senior vice president of people experience and technology at Amazon, in an Oct. 28 blog post. “We’re convinced that we need to be organized more leanly, with fewer layers and more ownership, to move as quickly as possible for our customers and business.”
Becker’s reached out to Amazon about whether its healthcare businesses would be affected by the job cuts.
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