Amazon announced that its eliminating approximately 14,000 corporate roles as part of its ongoing restructuring.
“If you believe your mission is to make customers’ lives easier and better every day, and you believe that every customer experience will be reinvented with AI, you’re going to invest very aggressively in AI, and that’s what we’re doing,” CEO Andy Jassy told analysts in May.
In a blog post, the e-commerce giant said most employees will be given 90 days to look for a new role internally.
“For our teammates who are unable to find a new role at Amazon or who choose not to look for one, we’ll offer them transition support including severance pay, outplacement services, health insurance benefits, and more,” the post reads.
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It remains unclear if corporate employees at Amazon Canada are being let go.
According to LinkedIn, the company currently has more than 14,800 workers in the country.
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