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据路透社与彭博社报道，亚马逊计划于下周启动新一轮企业岗位裁员。此次裁员规模预计与去年相近，可能成为该公司史上最大规模的企业人员优化。去年10月，亚马逊已在全球裁员约1.4万人，并曾表示2026年前可能进一步调整人员结构。

亚马逊人力资源主管贝丝·加莱蒂在内部备忘录中解释，公司正将资源向“最具潜力的领域及客户当前与未来需求”倾斜。她同时指出，当前人工智能技术是“自互联网以来最具变革性的创新”，正推动企业加速创新。

尽管外界猜测裁员与人工智能替代人力有关，但首席执行官安迪·贾西在财报会议上否认了这一说法，强调裁员源于提升组织效率的需要。自2021年接任以来，贾西持续推动管理层级精简，以应对过去十年快速扩张带来的决策效率问题。

数据显示，亚马逊企业员工数在2017至2022年间增长两倍，2023年初约为35万人。若此次裁员达到3万人，将影响约8.5%的企业员工，但仅占其全球157万总人力（含仓储员工）的较小比例。作为总部所在地，西雅图地区约5万名企业员工可能受到波及。

亚马逊将于2月5日公布最新财报。尽管去年股价表现落后于科技巨头同行，但分析师预计其云计算部门将受益于人工智能需求增长，有望提振公司股价。

中文翻译：

据路透社周四报道，亚马逊正准备在下周启动新一轮企业岗位裁员。彭博社也报道称，裁员可能于下周开始。我们已联系亚马逊寻求置评。

亚马逊去年10月在全球范围内裁减了约1.4万名员工。公司曾表示，2026年可能发生更多裁员，同时将继续在关键战略领域进行招聘。

路透社报道称，最新一轮裁员的规模将"与去年大致相当"。裁员总数可能创下亚马逊历史之最，超过2023年多轮裁员中削减的2.7万个岗位。

在去年10月发给员工的备忘录中，亚马逊人力资源主管贝丝·加莱蒂写道，公司正在"调整资源配置，以确保我们投资于最重要的业务领域，以及客户当前和未来最迫切的需求。"

她补充道："这一代人工智能是自互联网以来最具变革性的技术，它使企业能够以比以往更快的速度进行创新。"

有猜测认为，裁员与自动化或人工智能相关的重组有关。亚马逊和微软等其他科技巨头在大力投资人工智能基础设施的同时，也在缩减员工规模。随着人工智能编码工具的兴起，软件开发工程师成为去年华盛顿州受裁员影响最大的员工群体。

亚马逊首席执行官安迪·贾西也在去年6月告诉员工，由于人工智能带来的效率提升，他预计亚马逊的企业员工总数将逐渐减少。

但在去年10月宣布裁员两天后的公司财报电话会议上，贾西表示裁员并非由财务压力或人工智能取代人力所引发。相反，他将此描述为保持敏捷性的举措，并称亚马逊过去十年的快速增长导致了管理层级过多，拖慢了决策速度。

贾西于2021年中接替创始人杰夫·贝索斯担任首席执行官，一直致力于减少公司内部的管理层级和官僚作风。据The Information报道，在采取更谨慎的招聘策略之前，亚马逊的企业员工人数在2017年至2022年间增长了两倍。

亚马逊最近一次公开披露的企业员工人数是在2023年初，约为35万人。按此规模计算，裁员3万人约占亚马逊企业员工总数的8.5%。然而，这一数字仅占其包括仓库员工在内的157万总员工数的很小一部分。

该公司在其主要总部所在地西雅图地区雇佣了约5万名企业员工。去年10月，华盛顿州有2303名企业员工被裁。

亚马逊将于2月5日公布最新季度财报。去年该公司股价表现逊于"科技七巨头"中的其他公司。一些分析师预测，随着人工智能需求增长，亚马逊的云业务部门将有助于提振股价。

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英文来源：

Amazon is preparing for another round of corporate job cuts next week, according to a report from Reuters on Thursday. Bloomberg also reported that layoffs could begin next week. We reached out to Amazon for comment.
Amazon laid off about 14,000 workers globally in October. The company indicated that more layoffs could occur in 2026 while it would continue to hire in key strategic areas.
Reuters reported that the latest cuts will be “roughly the same as last year.” The overall number of cuts could be the largest in Amazon’s history, exceeding the 27,000 positions that the company eliminated in 2023 across multiple rounds of layoffs.
In a memo to employees sent in October, Amazon human resources chief Beth Galetti wrote that the company was “shifting resources to ensure we’re investing in our biggest bets and what matters most to our customers’ current and future needs.”
She added: “This generation of AI is the most transformative technology we’ve seen since the Internet, and it’s enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before.”
There was speculation that the cuts were tied to automation or AI-related restructuring. Amazon and other tech giants including Microsoft have trimmed headcount while investing heavily in AI infrastructure. And software development engineers made up the largest group of employees affected by the layoffs in Washington state last year, amid the rise of AI coding tools.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy also told employees in June that he expected Amazon’s total corporate workforce to shrink over time due to efficiency gains from AI.
But on the company’s earnings call with analysts, two days after the layoff announcement in October, Jassy said the cuts weren’t triggered by financial strain or artificial intelligence replacing workers. Instead, he framed it as a push to stay nimble, and said Amazon’s rapid growth over the past decade led to extra layers of management that slowed decision-making.
Jassy, who succeeded founder Jeff Bezos as CEO in mid-2021, has pushed to reduce management layers and eliminate bureaucracy inside the company. Amazon’s corporate headcount tripled between 2017 and 2022, according to The Information, before the company adopted a more cautious hiring approach.
Amazon’s corporate workforce numbered around 350,000 people in early 2023, the last time the company provided a public number. At that scale, the reduction of 30,000 represents about 8.5% of Amazon’s corporate workforce. However, the number is a much smaller fraction of its overall workforce of 1.57 million people, which includes workers in its warehouses.
The company employs around 50,000 corporate workers in the Seattle region, its primary headquarters. There were 2,303 corporate employees in Washington state that were laid off last year in October.
Amazon reports its latest quarterly earnings on Feb. 5. The company’s stock underperformed relative to the “Magnificent Seven” tech giants last year. Some analysts predict that Amazon’s cloud unit will help boost the stock as AI demand rises.
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