{"id":988599,"date":"2026-01-29T11:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988599"},"modified":"2026-01-29T11:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:17:09","slug":"amazon-layoffs-company-cuts-16000-more-jobs-in-three-months-hr-chief-beth-galletti-says-teams-did-not-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/29\/amazon-layoffs-company-cuts-16000-more-jobs-in-three-months-hr-chief-beth-galletti-says-teams-did-not-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon layoffs: Company cuts 16,000 more jobs in three months; HR chief Beth Galletti says: Teams did not complete\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is laying off another 16,000 corporate jobs\u2013exactly three months to the day after announcing 14,000 cuts on October 28. The combined total of 30,000 positions marks the largest workforce reduction in Amazon&#8217;s history, surpassing the 27,000 jobs eliminated during the post-pandemic belt-tightening in 2023. Affected employees in the US will get 90 days to find internal roles before severance kicks in.<\/p>\n<p>The layoffs are part of CEO Andy Jassy&#8217;s broader mission to run the $2 trillion company like &#8220;the world&#8217;s largest startup.&#8221; In a memo to staff, HR chief Beth Galetti said teams that didn&#8217;t finish restructuring in October have now completed the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is laying off another 16,000 corporate jobs\u2013exactly three months to the day after announcing 14,000 cuts on October 28. The combined total of 30,000 positions marks the largest workforce reduction in Amazon&#8217;s history, surpassing the 27,000 jobs eliminated during the post-pandemic belt-tightening in 2023. Affected employees in the US will get 90 days to find internal roles before severance kicks in. The layoffs are part of CEO Andy Jassy&#8217;s broader mission to run the $2 trillion company like &#8220;the world&#8217;s largest startup.&#8221; In a memo to staff, HR chief Beth Galetti said teams that didn&#8217;t finish restructuring in October [&hellip;]<\/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":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988599","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=988599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}