Amazon’s latest round of brutal layoffs included several hundred employees in New York, The Post has learned.
Some 135 corporate Amazon employees who worked at 1140 Broadway received pink slips in January, according to a state Department of Labor filing this week.
Another 165 Amazon workers in New York were axed, with the government records expected to hit the system within the coming weeks, a source familiar with the filings told The Post.
They’re all part of 16,000 layoffs announced last month. In October, the e-commerce giant slashed another 14,000 corporate jobs — part of a restructuring plan stemming from investments in artificial intelligence and what experts described as over-hiring during the COVID pandemic.
The company’s CEO Andy Jassy has slashed nearly 10% of Amazon’s workforce in a three-month span.
Last year, he said new tech could create new job opportunities – though he also admitted it could bring “efficiency gains” by helping to reduce the overall workforce.
“We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today,” Jassy wrote in a memo in June.
“In the next few years, we expect that [AI] will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company,” he added.
Amazon did not announce the locations it targeted for layoffs, so the government filings are the only indication of where the losses took place.
The company declined to comment on the Department of Labor filings.
“We’ve been working to strengthen our organization by reducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing bureaucracy,” senior vice president of people Beth Galetti wrote in a January blog post.
New York took a big hit last year with nearly 1,000 job losses at nine Amazon locations in the city.
The latest cuts are smaller and likely focused on tech roles, Wedbush analyst Dan Ives told The Post.
“Amazon has tried to establish a strong presence as part of the New York tech community and this layoff is a dent in those plans,” he said, adding that “many other NYC tech players will likely aggressively focus on this opportunity to add great tech talent.”
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