Amazon General Manager Andy Jassi speaks during the basic address Avs Re: Impent 2024, the host conference by Amazon Web Services, at Venetian Las Vegas, 3. December 2024. In Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Amazon The General Manager of Andy Jassi said Tuesday that the corporate workforce of the company would reduce in the coming years as it adopts more generations artificial intelligence Tools and agents.
“We will need fewer people who do some work that work today and more people do other types of jobs” “Jassi He said in employee notes. “It is difficult to know exactly where this network is out in time, but in the next few years we expect that it will reduce our overall corporate work force.”
Jassi wrote that employees should learn how to use AI tools and experimenting and realize “how to end up with rare teams.”
The Directive comes as Amazon fired More than 27,000 employees from 2022. years and this year, made several cuts. Amazon has reduced 200 employees in his North America unit stores In January and another 100 in her Devices and services Unit in May.
Amazon had 1.56 million full and part-time employees in its global labor force at the end of March, According to the financial submission. The company also employs temporary workers in its warehouses, together with some contractors.
Amazon is largely used by generative, including their internal operation, including the meeting in which the General AI is distributed to assist inventory, forecasting demand and warehouse efficiency, Jassi said.
Other technological companies have made similar declarations of how and it represents the transformation of their workforce. In April, Stifle Entire Toby dolls The employee is expected that employees will prove why “cannot get what they want to do using AI” before they put more major and resources.
Last month, Pure The General Manager of Sebastian Siemiatkovski said that the company reduced her head by 40%, partly due to investment in AI and natural obstacles in their workforce.
Amazon has made large investments in AI, Starting the noise of its products and quickly build data data to meet the demand for technology.
In his last letter ShareholdersJassi called the Generative AI “once in the life of life of everything we know”. He added that the technology is “keeping a lot of money”, and tribi to change norms in coding, searching, financial services, shopping and other areas.
“It moves faster than almost everything technology has ever seen,” Jassi said on Tuesday.
