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Podcast: Cornering The Job Market
Episode: Breaking Job News: Amazon & UPS Cut Jobs as Skills-First Hiring and Engagement Shift
Description: Layoffs are back in the headlines, and they’re colliding with deeper shifts in how companies hire and how workers feel about work. In today’s episode of Cornering the Job Market, host Pete Newsome breaks down major job cuts at Amazon and UPS, alongside new data on skills-first hiring and employee engagement.He starts with Amazon’s confirmation of roughly 16,000 corporate job cuts, completing a broader plan totaling nearly 30,000 corporate reductions since October, the largest in company history, as leadership pushes to reduce layers, increase ownership, and accelerate automation and AI. Pete explains which parts of the bu...