Amazon Axes 14,000: AI Hiring Bouncer or Just Jeff's Mood Swing?
In a plot twist only Jeff Bezos could appreciate, Amazon stormed its corporate HQ this Tuesday like a caffeine-deprived startup and chopped 14,000 jobs faster than you can say 'prime delivery.' CEO Andy Jassey wants Amazon to act 'like the worldās largest startup'āwhich apparently means layoffs bigger than a Black Friday crowd. Business Insiderās Eugene Kim spilled the tea on who's getting the pink slip (retail managers taking the biggest hits, shrugging hard). Meanwhile, AI apparently wears the layoff badge, making white-collar workers clutch their coffee with trembling hands, as Tech Correspondent Aki Ito warns that this could be the first domino of Microsoft's future tears. Tune in Thursday 2 pm ET if you need a communal cry session.
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Amazon just made 14,000 corporate employees 'redundant.' Is the new corporate mascot an AI overlord or just Andy Jasseyās chaos command? Grab your severance popcorn, Silicon Valley's new season is streaming live.
14,000 Amazon employees got canned so fast youād think AIās behind a hostile takeoverābut nope, just the CEO testing if chaos will boost Prime delivery speed.
If Jeff Bezos told Andy Jassey to run Amazon like a startup, someone forgot to mention startups donāt usually fire 14,000 people before their series A.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 10/29/2025 | Author: Business Insider
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