Amazon, AI and Layoffs
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GeekWire reported Tuesday on a new filing from the Washington Employment Security Department revealing that the tech giant is laying off 2,303 corporate employees, mostly in Seattle and Bellevue. The cuts are part of broader layoffs announced Tuesday that will impact about 14,000 workers globally.
Amazon is set to slash thousands of corporate jobs starting Oct. 28, according to multiple reports. The impending corporate layoffs amount to the largest such job reduction in the company's history, CNBC and Reuters reported, citing anonymous sources.
On Tuesday, October 28, word spread like wildfire that Amazon was initiating a huge number of layoffs. While Amazon's Senior Vice President of People, Experience and Technology Beth Galetti said the decision would impact roughly 14,000 employees, insiders told national news outlets that number could be more than doubled.
On social media and elsewhere, impacted employees and others reacted to Amazon's decision to cut 14,000 corporate and tech workers across numerous divisions.
Artificial Intelligence. This morning on Good Day Seattle, John Boyd from The Boyd Company joins us to discuss how these AI-driven job cuts could impact American workers and reshape the future of careers.
Amazon Games is winding down support for New World: Aeternum amid layoffs in the division and even deeper job cuts across its parent company. The game debuted on PC in 2021 and it landed on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S just over a year ago.
More names are starting to emerge of Amazon MGM Studios executives affected by the sweeping companywide layoffs today. They include Nathan Kitada, Senior Creative Executive, Tentpole & Universe Development.
A viral TikTok expert claims Amazon's 30,000 layoffs are a 'talent for GPUs' trade to fund its costly AI chip budget, not AI automation.