Amazon will eliminate 14,000 corporate positions through internal restructuring, joining over 200 tech companies that cut 98,000 jobs this year.

Amazon says that it will cut an estimated 14,000 jobs from its corporate workforce as it focuses on “reducing bureaucracy, removing layers, and shifting resources."

Beth Galetti, Amazon’s Senior Vice President of People Experience and Technology, broke the news to employees on Oct. 28, writing in an internal memo that the reductions are meant to “further reduc [ing] bureaucracy, remove layers, and shift resources” toward the company’s “biggest bets."

Amazon announced Tuesday that it plans to cut 14,000 corporate jobs as part of a broader effort to become leaner in an era shaped by AI.

A new report claims that Amazon may cut up to 30,000 corporate jobs as the e-commerce company attempts to reduce expenses. According to Reuters, three

Amazon will cut about 14,000 corporate jobs as it restructures around AI, trimming layers and bureaucracy while shifting work toward automation.

The job cuts at Amazon were announced Tuesday and account for 4% of the online retail company’s corporate workforce.

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“Nobody else has the same incentive as Amazon to find the way to automate,” said Daron Acemoglu ... If the plans pan out, “one of the biggest employers in the United States will become a net job destroyer, not a net job creator,” Mr. Acemoglu ...