Amazon said on Jan. 28 it will eliminate about 16,000 roles across the company as part of an ongoing restructuring effort aimed at flattening management layers, reducing bureaucracy, and redirecting resources toward artificial intelligence (AI) and other strategic priorities.
The cuts were outlined in an internal memo to staff from Beth Galetti, Amazon’s senior vice president of people experience and technology, who said the changes affect teams that had not completed earlier rounds of reorganization announced last autumn.
