Amazon seems to be mild launching his next round of layoffs. In a a Message to employees Divided Tuesday, Andy Jassy, Director -General of Amazon, spoke high about the company’s scope of artificial smart tools through its company, and said it would ultimately “reduce our entire corporate workforce while we gain efficiency” over time. This is just a slightly veiled corporate speech to “get ready to be replaced.”
Jassy called Generative AI “formerly-life-life” technology that will change the way the company works, and said that Amazon is already using it in “almost every corner of the company.” According to Jassy, Amazon already has more than 1,000 generative AI services and applications in progress or built, and said, “This is a small fraction of what we will eventually build.” So it is clear that the company is in AI. Amazon had previously said it would $ 100 billion to invest in AI technologies This year.
About people? Well, it seems that Amazon is not so committed to them in the long run. Jassy told the company’s 1.5 million employees that generative AI will “change the way our work is done”, and said the company will ultimately “need fewer people doing some of the work that are done today, and more people do other types of work.”
The message below: You may soon be out of work. “It’s hard to know exactly where this comes out over time, but in the next few years, we expect that to reduce our entire corporate workforce, as we will gain gains of efficiency of using AI widely through the company,” Jassy wrote.
The Director General offered his workers, some of whom are probably wondering only how long they will be hired, as possible to survive the next round of layoffs (or, perhaps more likely to help train their future substitutes). “As we go through this transformation together, be curious about AI, educate yourself, attend workplaces and take training, use and experiment with AI whenever you can, participate in your team’s brain to ascertain how to invent for our clients faster and expansively, and how more to do with scrap teams.”
Amazon tried to strip his workforce to the bones in departments, which seems to be careful about. The company Cut about 100 people of its devices and services earlier this year and about the same number Of its books -department. Per cnbcIt has dismissed about 27,000 people since 2022 and has its eyes on further cuts.
It is difficult to look at Jassy’s Ai-forward message so much except an indicator that more layoffs are around the corner. It is possible that the AI -hype is just a cynical attempt to position itself as an industrial leader when the real goal is to cut wages to accelerate a share price. It would not be the first company to try everywhere in AI at the expense of human work. At the beginning of a year, Klarna announced that it was To bring back representatives of human customer services After trying to leave the task to AI after finding the results are not great and people don’t like to deal with AI agents very much.
