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Amazon announced a second round of massive job cuts Friday as part of its earlier announced goal of laying off 30,000 corporate employees. The latest cuts will remove 14,000 white-collar jobs and will affect the company’s Amazon Web Services (AWS), retail, Prime Video and human resource units.
Other recently-announced white collar job cuts either announced or implemented this month include:
• San Francisco-based design software creator Autodesk announced plans to eliminate roughly 7 percent of its 15,300 global employees, a cut of 1,000 positions.
• 1,000 to 1,500 employees were cut from Meta as part of its 2026 “year of efficiency” strategy. The job slashing represents between 10 to 15 percent of its Reality Labs division, responsible for Metaverse and related virtual reality technologies. They follow 4,000 company job cuts in 2025 representing 5 percent of its global workforce.
• A thousand job cuts at Citigroup, with the banking giant promising an additional round of layoffs in March. These also follow significant 2025 job losses with Chief Financial Officer Mark Mason reporting a 2025 workforce reduction of 240,000 to 226,000 in a recent earnings call.
• The virtual obliteration of online video platform Vimeo after its acquisition by Bending Spoons, a company specializing in hostile takeovers of smaller web applications. A few months after the acquisition, the entire video team was let go, putting in jeopardy the company’s vast archive of historical and independent films and short videos.
• 24,000 job cuts at Intel. Despite the AI boom and consequent rising demand for its chips, the company announced the massive cuts this month, which equal approximately 15 percent of its staff.
• 15,000 job cuts at tech giant Microsoft. The cuts played a significant part in panicked employees taking to social media warning of an additional pending job loss involving 22,000 employees this month. In a virtually unprecedented move, the company’s communications officer went on social media to refute the rumors as unfounded, although it is highly likely that the company will be announcing further cutbacks to its 210,000 person workforce later this year.
• Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson announced a 1,600 person job cut on top of a 5,000 person head count reduction in 2025. The company is seeking to offset sluggish growth through layoffs and has also become involved in military defense projects for the first time in its history as a result of the Russia-Ukraine war, along with escalating tensions between Europe and the United States.
comrade stalin
moscow
Other recently-announced white collar job cuts either announced or implemented this month include:
• San Francisco-based design software creator Autodesk announced plans to eliminate roughly 7 percent of its 15,300 global employees, a cut of 1,000 positions.
• 1,000 to 1,500 employees were cut from Meta as part of its 2026 “year of efficiency” strategy. The job slashing represents between 10 to 15 percent of its Reality Labs division, responsible for Metaverse and related virtual reality technologies. They follow 4,000 company job cuts in 2025 representing 5 percent of its global workforce.
• A thousand job cuts at Citigroup, with the banking giant promising an additional round of layoffs in March. These also follow significant 2025 job losses with Chief Financial Officer Mark Mason reporting a 2025 workforce reduction of 240,000 to 226,000 in a recent earnings call.
• The virtual obliteration of online video platform Vimeo after its acquisition by Bending Spoons, a company specializing in hostile takeovers of smaller web applications. A few months after the acquisition, the entire video team was let go, putting in jeopardy the company’s vast archive of historical and independent films and short videos.
• 24,000 job cuts at Intel. Despite the AI boom and consequent rising demand for its chips, the company announced the massive cuts this month, which equal approximately 15 percent of its staff.
• 15,000 job cuts at tech giant Microsoft. The cuts played a significant part in panicked employees taking to social media warning of an additional pending job loss involving 22,000 employees this month. In a virtually unprecedented move, the company’s communications officer went on social media to refute the rumors as unfounded, although it is highly likely that the company will be announcing further cutbacks to its 210,000 person workforce later this year.
• Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson announced a 1,600 person job cut on top of a 5,000 person head count reduction in 2025. The company is seeking to offset sluggish growth through layoffs and has also become involved in military defense projects for the first time in its history as a result of the Russia-Ukraine war, along with escalating tensions between Europe and the United States.
Amazon announces thousands of new layoffs as corporate and tech jobs bloodbath continues into new year
Amazon announced a second round of job cuts Friday as part of its goal of laying off 30,000 employees.
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