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2,400 Amazon employees laid off in Washington as company shifts $100B toward AI

Amazon's ongoing layoffs in Washington state highlight a stark shift in priorities, with public records showing nearly 2,400 job cuts over the past year. These reductions, affecting engineers, ...
WFMZ-TV

Amazon layoffs threaten Seattle’s payroll tax and holiday sales revenue

(The Center Square) – Amazon is laying off 2,303 Washington-based employees, with 1,887 in Seattle alone. It's a move projected to deal a multimillion-dollar blow to the city’s tax revenues. The ...
Seattle Times

Amazon orders employees to relocate to Seattle and other hubs

Amazon is ordering some corporate employees to move closer to their managers and teams, roiling a workforce already worried about job cuts and warnings from the top that artificial intelligence will ...
GeekWire

Seattle mayor says Microsoft and Amazon have a ‘moral obligation’ to give back to the city

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell addresses the crowd at an Amazon event in 2024. (GeekWire File Photo / Taylor Soper) Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has a message for his city’s tech giants: it’s time ...