The Rundown: Amazon … to slash 14,000 Corporate Jobs

Posted on October 28, 2025 by michelleclarke2015
Amazon to slash 14K corporate jobs
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The Rundown: Amazon is set to cut 14K corporate roles starting Tuesday — below the 30K initially reported but still a major downsizing as CEO Andy Jassy’s cost-cutting campaign continues. Notifications arrive via email.
The details:
The retail giant’s last major round of job cuts was at the end of 2022 and into 2023, when 27K positions were axed.Leadership is selling the cuts as cost-cutting and a correction to pandemic-era bloat, while flattening management hierarchies that inflated over the years. Initial reports stated that 14K roles get eliminated now, with another wave likely hitting in January once the holiday crunch ends, which Amazon refutes. HR, Devices & Services, and Operations take the heaviest hits as Amazon redirects capital toward data centers and generative AI infrastructure.
Why it matters: CEO Andy Jassy has been telegraphing this for months, telling staffers in June that generative AI would mean “fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today.” Slashing thousands of corporate staff certainly gets the message across that Amazon thinks AI infrastructure matters more than headcount.
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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