{"id":988579,"date":"2026-01-29T11:23:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988579"},"modified":"2026-01-29T11:23:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:53:28","slug":"amazon-layoffs-tech-giant-to-cut-16000-jobs-in-second-round-in-next-three-months-amid-ai-expansion-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/29\/amazon-layoffs-tech-giant-to-cut-16000-jobs-in-second-round-in-next-three-months-amid-ai-expansion-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon layoffs: Tech giant to cut 16,000 jobs in second round in next three months amid AI expansion plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon layoffs: US-based technology and e-commerce giant, Amazon, is set to cut 16,000 jobs worldwide in the next three-month period amid the company&#8217;s restructuring and artificial intelligence (AI) expansion plans, according the an official announcement on Wednesday, 28 January 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reductions we are making today will impact approximately 16,000 roles across Amazon, and we&#8217;re again working hard to support everyone whose role is impacted,\u201d said Amazon in a blog post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon layoffs: US-based technology and e-commerce giant, Amazon, is set to cut 16,000 jobs worldwide in the next three-month period amid the company&#8217;s restructuring and artificial intelligence (AI) expansion plans, according the an official announcement on Wednesday, 28 January 2026. \u201cThe reductions we are making today will impact approximately 16,000 roles across Amazon, and we&#8217;re again working hard to support everyone whose role is impacted,\u201d said Amazon in a blog post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988579","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}