Amazon cutting thousands of corporate roles
www.gamedeveloper.com
Sources claim the layoffs could be announced this week and impact up to 30,000 people.

Oh, and turns out New World, Amazon’s one reasonably-sized success in gaming, is shutting down in 2026, and development is ending imminently.

  • Jhex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    20 hours ago

    Galetti also espoused the benefits of AI in her message to employees, and claimed the oft-criticized technology is already allowing companies like Amazon to “innovate much faster than ever before.” She suggested it’s important for the company to reduce its headcount in order to take advantage of the perceived opportunity presented by the tech.

    This screams of, we need to cut heads so we can pretend to be innovating with AI somehow

    Most likely, they are just hiding all the sunken AI investment that has returned nothing in terms of revenue

    • yermaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      5 hours ago

      “Perceived opportunity presented”

      Shareholders keep saying AI at me, so now I gotta do something. Sorry guys.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      10·
      20 hours ago

      I legit laughed out loud at that. That is hilarious. Of course it’ll bite them in the ass, but in the short term it’s literally more important that AI look like it’s cutting job than actually cutting jobs

    • criss_cross@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      16 hours ago

      That’s almost as bad as Doug Herrington, head of Retail, saying they needed to fire people to keep costs low for customers.