{"id":84144,"date":"2026-01-28T22:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84144"},"modified":"2026-01-28T22:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:19:08","slug":"amazon-to-cut-16000-jobs-globally-in-fresh-round-of-lay-offs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/28\/amazon-to-cut-16000-jobs-globally-in-fresh-round-of-lay-offs\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon to cut 16,000 jobs globally in fresh round of lay-offs"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1V9Rny.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Amazon laid off about 14,000 people in October (Getty\/iStock)\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/amazon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Amazon<\/a>\u00a0plans to cut about 16,000 jobs globally as part of efforts to\u00a0<a title=\"Amazon planning to axe thousands of jobs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tech\/amazon-job-cuts-uk-redundancies-b2906629.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">streamline its operations<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/amazon-to-cut-16-000-jobs-globally-in-fresh-round-of-lay-offs\/ar-AA1V9OtO?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=697a4624ff514547b60c9bc397c7e975&amp;ei=27\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Amazon\u00a0plans to cut about 16,000 jobs globally as part of efforts to\u00a0streamline its operations. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Amazon.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84145,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84144\/revisions\/84145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}