Figure represents nearly 10% of the company’s roughly 350,000 corporate employees

Amazon is preparing to lay off tens of thousands of corporate workers, reversing its pandemic hiring spree. The cuts come months after the retail giant’s CEO warned white-collar employees their jobs could be taken by artificial intelligence.

I’m sure the tRump slump has nothing to do with it

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    And one of the biggest departments that expanded massively at many companies during the pandemic? HR. So now there’s a LOT of HR and hiring staff being made redundant in the tech industry.

    • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
      2·
      21 hours ago

      Recruiters specifically, yeah. Also DEI, but that cratered largely because of the US’ political stance on DEI.

      And marketing & sales - that was the largest change because the whole idea was to take advantage of untapped demand

      Also engineering - particularly AI related. Thats a big reason the enginnering job market is hot garbage rn