February 16 news, insiders have disclosed to Reuters recently, earlier this week Amazon company has laid off in Seattle headquarters, layoffs have reached the scale of hundreds of people.The main job of this layoff is Amazon's electricity Business core business, which also means that Amazon is planning a reorganization.
Some insiders believe that the layoffs Amazon is to further demonstrate their strength in artificial intelligence.Amazon hopes to make some of the original work of human beings to the intelligent robot.After a company in charge of data analysis company in an interview Said that Amazon is some of the processes are automated.
Amazon's Seattle headquarters have actually been in the expansion, after they had planned to build a second company headquarters.As of the end of 2017, Amazon's total number of employees worldwide has reached 566,000, an increase of 66% from the end of the previous year, , So it is reasonable for some employees to lay off employees now.