{"id":988637,"date":"2026-01-29T12:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988637"},"modified":"2026-01-29T12:57:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T07:27:45","slug":"amazon-announces-layoffs-to-cut-16000-jobs-amid-rising-competition-over-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/29\/amazon-announces-layoffs-to-cut-16000-jobs-amid-rising-competition-over-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon announces layoffs to cut 16,000 jobs amid \u2018rising competition over AI\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon.com Inc. has announced layoffs affecting as many as 16,000 corporate jobs, amid \u201crising competition over AI\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The company will offer US-based employees 90 days to search for a new role internally, as well as severance and other transition support, Beth Galetti, the senior vice president of people experience and technology at Amazon, said in a blog post on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon.com Inc. has announced layoffs affecting as many as 16,000 corporate jobs, amid \u201crising competition over AI\u201d. The company will offer US-based employees 90 days to search for a new role internally, as well as severance and other transition support, Beth Galetti, the senior vice president of people experience and technology at Amazon, said in a blog post on Wednesday.<\/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":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988637","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=988637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}