“"As we roll out more Generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done. We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today... in the next few years, we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company."”
President and CEO, Amazon
Said Jun 17, 2025Deadline Dec 31, 2028Amazon memo to employees, 17 June 2025 (published on Amazon's corporate blog)
Amazon announced large corporate job cuts later in 2025, but the company attributed them chiefly to bureaucracy and culture rather than AI, and the 'next few years' window runs to 2028, so the AI-attribution part remains open.