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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said that the company laid off 14,000 employees earlier this week because they didn’t fit with the company’s culture.

Jassy said that Amazon’s recent years of rapid growth had created “a lot more layers” that had slowed down decision-making.

He pushed for a more agile and accountable culture with fewer layers of management.

Amazon laid off 14,000 corporate employees earlier this week, marking one of the largest job cuts in the company’s history. Now CEO Andy Jassy is clarifying why the job cuts occurred for the first time, saying that AI and finances had nothing to do with the decision — it was all about culture fit.

Amazon is the world’s second-largest private employer with about 1.5 million employees , including those who work in its war

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