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Good afternoon.

From the KUW Newsroom, this is Seattle Now.

I'm Zaki Hamid with a roundup of today's

top stories. It's Wednesday, January 28th. Amazon announced today that it's laying off

16,000 employees as part two of a 30,000-person layoff plan that began in October. It's the largest reduction in the company's history.

Monica Nicholsberg reports. Amazon hired Matt McLean in 2020 to help predict how many employees the company

would need to handle a surge in pandemic-driven demand. Amazon now says that over-hiring during the

pandemic is the reason for repeated rounds of layoffs.

MacLean was laid off in the October cuts.

So when you say we hired more than we needed, we actually hired what we needed at the time,

but we needed fewer bodies moving forward.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy recently said the company is not replacing laid-off workers

with AI. But two Amazon employees who spoke to NPR on the condition of anonymity because they fear

losing their jobs said managers are asking them to use AI to pick up the slack when their teams

shrink. Monica Nicholsberg, KUOW News.

And it's not just Amazon that's shedding corporate workers in Seattle today.

Expedia issued a notice that it will lay off 162 employees in April.

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