Amazon Announces 'Forever Layoffs' To Make Employees Disappear Like Alexa Skills
KEY POINTS
- •Amazon announced on Wednesday it will cut 16,000 jobs, following the 14,000 layoffs it made three months prior.
- •Senior vice president Beth Galetti explained these cuts target teams still in the midst of last October's reorganization.
- •Amazon attributes the layoffs to AI productivity, post-pandemic over-hiring, and cost cuts amid ongoing inflation pressures.
Just three months after Amazon axed 14,000 jobs with the subtlety of an overenthusiastic robot vacuum, it’s firing another 16,000. This saga starring senior VP Beth Galetti promises 'strategic investments' even while More Humans Become Optional. Dubbed the 'forever layoff,' these cuts don’t hit all at once but dribble down like the company’s last decade of warehouse gremlins. They blame AI productivity boosts, post-pandemic hiring regrets, and inflation making Jeff’s money seem tight for once. Bet Beth’s blog post made reorgs sound like 'early stages of building,' because if 'also firing' was a startup, Amazon would IPO tomorrow.
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(1 of 3)Amazon’s cutting jobs in waves like it’s Netflix dropping seasons nobody asked for, but with more tears and less popcorn.
Amazon’s hiring motto: if you blink, you missed your pink slip. AI’s taking over, but first, let’s tidy up the humans.
Welcome to Amazon’s job purge season two: the layoffs keep coming like bad sequels no one requested but Jeff’s wallet loves.
Source: Axios | Published: 1/28/2026 | Author: Ben Berkowitz
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