Amazon will slash 30,000 corporate jobs starting Tuesday, according to a report — unleashing one of the US’s biggest job bloodbaths this century as the company aggressively revamps its business with artificial intelligence.
Sources told Reuters the reductions — which amount to 9% of Amazon’s global office-based workforce of 350,000 — will begin Tuesday and could unfold over several weeks. The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Seattle-based web giant’s sweeping layoffs mark the biggest in a series of major contractions for the company , which has slashed tens of thousands of jobs since CEO Andy Jassy took over from the company’s billionaire founder Jeff Bezos in 2021.
In 2022 and 2023, Jassy cut a total of 27,000 jobs, Reuters reported. Those cuts targ

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