Amazon Cuts 16,000 Jobs Because Bureaucracy Was Officially Too Much to Pretend
KEY POINTS
- •Amazon announced in January the elimination of around 16,000 corporate roles worldwide, following a similar cut of 14,000 jobs last October.
- •Angi, formerly Angie’s List, laid off about 350 employees citing AI efficiencies, aiming to save between $70 million and $80 million annually.
- •Citi plans to cut 20,000 jobs this year as part of a workforce reduction strategy to save as much as $2.5 billion.
Welcome to 2026, where AI isn’t just taking your job but kudos from Angie’s List (now just Angi), which slashed 350 roles to save $70-$80 million. Amazon doubled down, dropping 16,000 corporate bodies in January after a previous 14,000 in October, blaming 'bureaucracy' like it’s a CEO-level Cleanse Juice Detox. Meanwhile, Citi’s still firing workers to hit its 20,000 employee diet plan for 10% workforce shrinkage, hoping to keep $2.5 billion in the bank. Nike’s streamlining with 775 cuts in Tennessee and Mississippi to automate faster, and on the VR side, Meta’s Reality Labs prepares to ghost 10-15% of its team—because who needs virtual reality when the real world is already terrifying?
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Amazon’s out here playing corporate Whac-A-Mole, now cutting 16,000 jobs ‘to reduce bureaucracy.’ Remember, if you still have a desk, congrats you’re officially bureaucratic enough to keep it.
Meta’s firing Reality Labs staff after years of making virtual worlds no one wants to live in—guess reality finally hit back.
Nike’s eliminating 775 distribution jobs to ‘streamline’ but really just to make robots flex harder.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 1/28/2026 | Author: Dominick Reuter,Katherine Li,Shubhangi Goel,Jordan Hart,Roya Shahidi
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