New Delhi: After Amazon layoffs 18,000 employees in November now they have layoffs more than 10,000 employees from jobs. After this Complete Circle CIO Gurmeet Chadha wrote a very critical tweet on X, expressing his frustration over corporate jargon and AI-driven job cuts he wrote in the comments about Amazon’s decision to lay off more employees Chadha commented that “Amazon is laying off 10,000 more people after lying off 18,000 employees in November. They call their HR heads with fancy names like People Experience Head, Chief People Officer, and with some other fancy names employees are called families, Sab drama.”
Chadha argued that taking a strong stance against mass layoffs in the name of technology innovation, disruptive technology should not come at the cost of people and AI or any disruption can bring misery to their people is useless taking the technology innovation a stand. Chadha has also invoked Guru Nanak Dev’s philosophy of Sarbat da Bhalla (welfare of all) stressing that people’s well-being should be at the most hike at the core of any technology or innovation.
Chadha has also remarks come amid Amazon’s CEO Andy Jassy’s aggressive restructuring efforts to reduce middle management and increase efficiency. Jassy has initially targeted a 15% reduction in middle managers by Q1 2025, but the company has already surpassed this goal and they are trying to make the main target of making the stands of AI-driven jobs and laying off the employees as taking the stance of the technology innovation.
Andy Jassy has justified in an interview that if we add a lot of people and then we end up with a lot of middle managers and those middle managers make their fingerprints in everything in the company. The strategy is meant to empower employees with greater autonomy making them take ownership of their work instead of relying on multiple layers of management. And then Jassy even criticized the corporate culture of being in the pre-meeting, for the pre-meeting, and for the pre-meeting with the decision-meeting.
Amazon’s shift towards fewer managers has been well-received by Gen Z employees, a survey by Robert Walters found that 52% of Gen Z employees avoid middle management roles, and 72% want to progress without any supervisory responsibilities. Despite Amazon’s return-to-office policy remains a sore point the company mandates employees to work-office five days a week a decision supported by AWS CEO Matt Garman, who insists that true innovation is difficult to achieve remotely. However, this has led to employee backlash, with many opting to rage apply for new jobs and even writing letters to leadership in protest.