After speaking with anonymous Amazon workers, Reuters reported that the company was training its managers on how to conduct the layoffs on Monday. The same report also mentions that AWS alone made US$30.9 billion (roughly C$43.1 billion) in Q2 of this year.
At least Amazon is being transparent about laying off workers because of AI. We’ve seen many other companies, and I won’t name names, lay off employees this year for mysterious reasons that were never shared, but from the outside looking in, it appears to be AI-related.
Bloomberg has reported that this will impact people in logistics, payments, video games, and AWS teams.
This isn’t Amazon’s first round of bad news for the company’s employees this year. Earlier this month, it also emerged that the company plans to use robots to fill 600,000 jobs by 2033. Amazon was also recently under fire for its decision to pull out of Quebec after warehouse workers unionized.