Amazon to Cut 16,000 Corporate Positions to Trim Bureaucracy (2)

Amazon.com Inc. is cutting 16,000 corporate jobs in a broad effort to remove layers of bureaucracy and “increase ownership,” becoming the latest company to target managers for layoffs in recent years.

The tech firm will offer US-based employees 90 days to search for a new role internally, as well as severance and other transition support, Beth Galetti, Amazon’s senior vice president of people experience and technology said Wednesday in a blog post.

“We’ve been working to strengthen our organization by reducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing bureaucracy,” Galetti said. She said it’s “not our plan” to announce broad ...