For layoffs working is preparing the Amazonas the company’s chief executive urged company staff to show interest in artificial intelligence and warned that AI technology would lead to a reduction in jobs next time.
Specifically, the memorandum sent yesterday (17.6.2025) to Amazon’s employees urged them to “show curiosity for AI”. The technological giant is the latest company to announce its plans to exploit AI amid concerns that technology will cause massive job losses worldwide, according to an ERTNEWS report.
Mr Jassi said he expects AI to “improve profitability”, allowing the company to reduce its corporate staff. “We will need fewer people to do some of the jobs that are being done today and more to do other types of tasks,” he wrote. “It is difficult to accurately predict where this situation will lead over time, but in the next few years we expect this to reduce our overall corporate staff, as we will reap the benefit of efficiency from the extensive use of AI throughout the company.”
Companies – especially in the field of technology – are investing massively in AI in recent years, with technological developments making it easier than ever chatbot to create code, images and text with minimal instructions.
As these new tools are gaining ground, technological leaders warn of job losses, especially in the Introductory Introductory Office.
Dario Amondey, chief executive of AI Anthropic, told Axios last month that technology could eliminate 50% of offices.
Jeffrey Hidon, known as the “godfather of AI” for his work on Google and elsewhere, expressed similar concerns on a recent podcast. “This is a very different form of technology,” he said, rejecting the argument that job losses will be offset by the creation of new positions, as has been the case with previous technological revolutions. You have to be very specialized to have a job that this technology can not just do. “
Amazon immediately employed more than 1.5 million people worldwide at the end of last year.
The majority of them are in the US, where Amazon is the second largest employer after Walmart.
While many work in the company’s warehouses for e -commerce, about 350,000 people work in corporate (office) positions.