Amazon to Cut 14,000 Corporate Jobs (33 characters)

Amazon to Cut 14,000 Corporate Jobs (33 characters)

In a bold move to streamline operations and accelerate its embrace of artificial intelligence, Amazon.com Inc. revealed plans on Tuesday to eliminate approximately 14,000 corporate positions, marking one of the largest rounds of job cuts in the e-commerce giant's history.  The announcement, detailed in a company blog post, underscores CEO Andy Jassy's ongoing efforts to reduce bureaucracy, flatten organizational layers, and redirect resources toward high-growth areas like generative AI, even as the retailer gears up for the holiday shopping rush. The layoffs, which represent about 4% of Amazon's roughly 350,000 corporate and technology employees, are expected to ripple across nearly every department within the company's white-collar workforce.  Sources familiar with the matter, speaking to Reuters, suggest the total reductions could climb as high as 30,000 jobs—equivalent to around 10% of the corporate staff—over the coming months, with further cuts anticipated into 2026. …