When Divya Porwal’s friend landed in Bengaluru after the Diwali break, the first thing he saw wasn’t a festive greeting — it was an email from Amazon informing him he had been laid off.

“He boarded his flight back to Bengaluru after Diwali break, excited to be back,” Porwal wrote on X. “As soon as he landed, he turned on his phone — there it was. A layoff mail from Amazon.”

Her post is among dozens shared on social media this week after Amazon.com Inc confirmed plans to cut nearly 14,000 corporate jobs — one of its biggest rounds of layoffs in recent years. The move follows months of warnings from Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy, who had said that artificial intelligence (AI) would increasingly handle tasks once done by human employees.

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