{"id":989524,"date":"2026-02-03T08:55:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989524"},"modified":"2026-02-03T09:15:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:45:37","slug":"did-artificial-intelligence-really-drive-layoffs-at-amazon-other-firms-it-can-be-hard-to-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/03\/did-artificial-intelligence-really-drive-layoffs-at-amazon-other-firms-it-can-be-hard-to-tell\/","title":{"rendered":"Did artificial intelligence really drive layoffs at Amazon, other firms? It can be hard to tell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The one thing N. Lee Plumb knows for sure is that being laid off from Amazon last week was not due to a failure to embrace the company\u2019s artificial intelligence push. <\/p>\n<p>Plumb, the head of his team\u2019s \u201cAI enablement,\u201d says he was among the most prolific users of Amazon\u2019s new AI coding tool. In fact, he was flagged internally as one of the platform\u2019s top users. <\/p>\n<p>Yet Plumb was still among the 16,000 corporate employees laid off by Amazon last week, cuts many assumed reflected CEO Andy Jassy\u2019s stated aim to \u201creduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The one thing N. Lee Plumb knows for sure is that being laid off from Amazon last week was not due to a failure to embrace the company\u2019s artificial intelligence push. Plumb, the head of his team\u2019s \u201cAI enablement,\u201d says he was among the most prolific users of Amazon\u2019s new AI coding tool. In fact, he was flagged internally as one of the platform\u2019s top users. Yet Plumb was still among the 16,000 corporate employees laid off by Amazon last week, cuts many assumed reflected CEO Andy Jassy\u2019s stated aim to \u201creduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency [&hellip;]<\/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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989524","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=989524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}