Amazon employees to CEO Andy Jassy: “Nothing more motivating on a Tuesday than…,” after he says AI will take their jobs

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy delivered a stark warning to the company’s 350,000 corporate employees this week, announcing that artificial intelligence will fundamentally reduce the workforce over the next few years through “efficiency gains.” The memo has sparked immediate backlash across internal company channels, with workers questioning leadership’s vision and expressing concerns about the aggressive AI push.

“We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today,” Jassy wrote in his company-wide message, predicting the transformation will “reduce our total corporate workforce” as AI agents and generative AI systems take over human roles.