Amazon to lay off around 16,000 corporate employees
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Amazon has confirmed 16,000 corporate job cuts, completing a total of around 30,000 since October. This move, initiated by CEO Andy Jassy, aims to reduce bureaucracy and eliminate underperforming divisions.

The company is closing its Fresh grocery stores and Go markets while discontinuing the Amazon One biometric payment system. Although 30,000 cuts is a small percentage of Amazon's 1.58 million employees, it represents nearly 10% of its corporate workforce, marking the largest layoffs in its history.

In Slack messages, AWS employees who received the email said the Wednesday meeting was promptly canceled.

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