On social media and elsewhere, impacted employees and others reacted to Amazon's decision to cut 14,000 corporate and tech workers across numerous divisions.

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Layoffs have hit companies from Starbucks to Meta to Intel this year amid a backdrop of cost-cutting and technological change.

At the same time, Amazon, like other giant employers, is not immune to the uncertain business climate that has prompted other companies to put the brakes on hiring and look for ways to tighten their belts as they absorb the costs of tariffs and anxiously await a lasting US-China trade deal.

Amazon’s 30,000 job cuts show even giants aren’t immune to today’s retail pressures: efficiency, automation, and consumer caution now define the new marketplace.

Amazon announced Tuesday that it plans to cut 14,000 corporate jobs as part of a broader effort to become leaner in an era shaped by AI.

Analysts have called it the “no-hire, no-fire” economy. But the thousands of job cuts announced by Amazon.com Inc. and United Parcel Service Inc. on Tuesday may suggest that the U.S. job market’s current state of suspension has changed for the worse.

Eric Diton, president and managing director of The Wealth Alliance, said Amazon's announcement on Tuesday of mass layoffs, due to the company's adoption of artifical intelligence, could signal an overall downsizing of the U.S. labor force.

Amid sweeping layoffs that began throughout ecommerce giant Amazon Tuesday, the company is making "significant" changes to its video games business.