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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is expressed during an opening address at AWS Re: Invent 2024, a conference organized by Amazon Web Services, at Venetian Las Vegas on December 3, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said on Tuesday that the company’s business workforce would shrink in the coming years when it adopts more generative artificial intelligence Tools and agents.
“We will need fewer people who make jobs that are made today, and more people who make other types of jobs”, Jassy said employees in a memo. “It is difficult to know exactly where it takes place over time, but in the coming years, we expect it to reduce our total business workforce.”
Jassy wrote that employees should learn to use AI tools and experiment and determine “how to do more with Scrappier teams”.
The directive comes as Amazon licensee More than 27,000 employees since 2022 and have made several cuts this year. Amazon cut around 200 employees in North America store store in January and 100 others in his devices and services Unit in May.
Amazon had 1.56 million full -time and part -time employees in its global workforce at the end of March, According to financial documents. The company also employs temporary workers in its warehouse operations, as well as certain entrepreneurs.
Amazon uses a generative AI largely through its internal operations, in particular in its execution network where generative AI is deployed to help the implementation of stocks, forecasting demand and the efficiency of warehouse robots, said Jassy.
Other technological companies have made similar proclamations on how AI behaves to transform their workforce. In April, Shop CEO Tobi dolls These employees will have to prove why they “cannot get what they want to do using AI” before requesting more workforce and resources.
Last month, Clear The CEO, Sebastian, Siemiatkowski, said that the company had reduced its 40%workforce, partly due to investments in AI and natural attrition in its workforce.
Amazon made major investments in AI, Launch a burst of its own products and quickly creating data centers to meet the growing demand for technology.
In his last letter to shareholdersJassy called a “unique reinvention of everything we know.” He added that “saves a lot of business money” and should change coding, research, financial services, shopping and other fields.
“It evolves faster than almost everything that technology has never seen,” Jassy said on Tuesday.
