{"id":36959,"date":"2025-10-29T23:51:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T23:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/watch-live-bis-tech-team-talks-amazon-layoffs-and-what-it-means-for-your-career\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T23:51:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T23:51:36","slug":"watch-live-bis-tech-team-talks-amazon-layoffs-and-what-it-means-for-your-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/watch-live-bis-tech-team-talks-amazon-layoffs-and-what-it-means-for-your-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Live: BI&#8217;s tech team talks Amazon layoffs and what it means for your career"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6902a72d599d46a4ccc11c6d?format=jpeg\" alt=\"The words &quot;Amazon Layoffs: Is AI to Blame&quot; in front of a shot of Amazon HQ.\"\/><figcaption>BI&#039;s correspondents will discuss the recent Amazon layoffs and what comes next.<\/p>\n<p>BI<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Thousands of Amazon workers lost their jobs this week.<\/li>\n<li>The layoffs were a major shake-up at the tech giant and could be a sign of things to come in the age of AI.<\/li>\n<li>Follow along with the conversation live here at 2 pm ET on Thursday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With AI rolling out across industries, one question has loomed: will people lose their jobs?<\/p>\n<p>Amazon kick-started an answer this week.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the Jeff Bezos-owned tech giant cut 14,000 workers across its corporate workforce. Amazon said the deep cuts were the latest in CEO Andy Jassey&#039;s plan to have the firm act &quot;like the world&#039;s largest startup.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Business Insider&#039;s tech team used internal documents to reveal how Amazon&#039;s top brass shared the news, what they told workers who were laid off, and their advice for the staff who remained.<\/p>\n<p>But all eyes are now on what comes next \u2014 not just for Amazon but companies beyond Silicon Valley as artificial intelligence rattles a frozen job market.<\/p>\n<p>Is AI behind Amazon&#039;s decision to lay off 14,000 employees, and will more companies follow suit with layoffs of their own?<\/p>\n<p>Business Insider&#039;s Chief Tech Correspondent Eugene Kim and Chief Correspondent Aki Ito will join Deputy Executive Editor Dan DeFrancesco to discuss.<\/p>\n<p>Kim broke news about the divisions of Amazon hit hardest by the layoffs, while Ito&#039;s latest piece explored how Amazon&#039;s full-throttle approach to layoffs could be a warning sign of more AI-related job cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Kim and Ito will tackle Amazon&#039;s business case for the layoffs, look ahead to the company&#039;s earnings, and flag what white-collar workers should watch for in this new age of AI.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have questions for our correspondents? Send them to moderator Dan Defrancesco.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the discussion live here at 2 pm ET on Thursday:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pP-TQwDOGko?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BI&#039;s correspondents will discuss the recent Amazon layoffs and what comes next. BI Thousands of Amazon workers lost their jobs this week. The layoffs were a major shake-up at the tech giant and could be a sign of things to come in the age of AI. Follow along with the conversation live here at 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}