Overview
- Most of the roles affected are in the United States.
- In a message to staff, Amazon said it will support impacted employees and, where possible, offer alternative roles.
- The move follows a prior round about three months ago that eliminated roughly 14,000 jobs.
- The disclosure comes after some layoff plans were inadvertently shared with employees earlier in the week.
- Reporting situates the restructuring during a period of growing use of artificial intelligence across Amazon's operations.