Workers unload Amazon packages from a Prime delivery truck in New York on October 28, 2025. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg/Getty Images New York —

Amazon chief executive Andy Jassy’s explanation for why the company is cutting 14,000 employees ? Not money. Not even AI, but “culture.”

The layoff announcement this week was “not really financially driven, and it’s not even really AI driven, not right now. It’s culture,” Jassy said in response to an analyst question on the company’s earnings call Thursday. Amazon’s quarterly sales grew 13% year-on-year to $180 billion.

Jassy explained that as Amazon added headcount, locations and lines of business in recent years, “you end up with a lot more people than what you had before, and you end up with a lot more layers … sometimes without reali

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