{"id":988415,"date":"2026-01-29T08:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988415"},"modified":"2026-01-29T08:29:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:59:20","slug":"amazon-cuts-16000-jobs-globally-to-undo-pandemic-era-hiring-amid-ai-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/29\/amazon-cuts-16000-jobs-globally-to-undo-pandemic-era-hiring-amid-ai-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon cuts 16,000 jobs globally to undo pandemic-era hiring amid AI push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon said on Wednesday it was \u200dcutting 16,000 jobs worldwide in the second major round of layoffs at the company in three \u2060months, as it restructures after pandemic-era over-hiring and expands the adoption of artificial intelligence tools. <\/p>\n<p>Reuters first reported last week that Amazon was planning a second round of job cuts as part of a \u200cbroader goal \u200cof trimming about 30,000 corporate roles, with the layoffs expected to affect workers in Amazon Web Services, retail, Prime Video \u200cand human resources departments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon said on Wednesday it was \u200dcutting 16,000 jobs worldwide in the second major round of layoffs at the company in three \u2060months, as it restructures after pandemic-era over-hiring and expands the adoption of artificial intelligence tools. Reuters first reported last week that Amazon was planning a second round of job cuts as part of a \u200cbroader goal \u200cof trimming about 30,000 corporate roles, with the layoffs expected to affect workers in Amazon Web Services, retail, Prime Video \u200cand human resources departments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}