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Amazon employees hit by fresh job cuts across several teams

Amazon faces new layoffs affecting seller support, engineering, and customer service amid its cost overhaul and AI investments.

Amazon announced on Tuesday a fresh round of job cuts across several teams within the company. Roughly 1,000 employees were impacted by the layoffs, following a series of 30,000 job eliminations earlier this year. Employees were notified of their role eliminations via internal communications, prompting numerous questions on an internal Slack channel about severance, job postings access, and further notifications.

The affected teams spanned customer service, marketplace support, engineering roles in Amazon’s retail business, as well as roles in India and the UK. An Amazon spokesperson confirmed the company eliminated "a small number" of roles, primarily in its Stores business, as part of ongoing efforts to streamline its workforce ahead of a projected $220 billion investment in AI infrastructure.

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