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Jabran Kundi

Amazon Is Cutting 16,000 Jobs. Should You Buy, Sell, or Hold AMZN Stock Here?

Amazon (AMZN) stepped up its restructuring efforts on Jan. 28 when it announced cutting 16,000 corporate jobs at the company. Roughly 4.6% of its corporate workforce. This has reminded people of the late 2022 and early 2023 period, when the firm laid off about 27,000 people.

Beth Galetti, who is the senior vice president of people experience and technology at Amazon, has stated that these layoffs were a part of efforts to reduce bureaucracy and layers within the organization, which is quite bloated at an employee count of over 1.5 million, though a vast majority of these are warehouse workers. 

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