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Amazon is expected to start informing employees about sweeping job cuts starting today. It plans to lay off as many as 30,000 staff across its corporate workforce. The layoffs are part of a broader cost-cutting campaign that started during the COVID-19 pandemic. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said earlier this year that the company's workforce could shrink further as a result of generative AI.

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Engineering teams lose hours every week to context switching and fragmented tools. Join Atlassian's November 20 webinar to learn insights from their research on developer productivity. See how AI-driven workflows help teams reduce administrative overhead and reclaim time for actual innovation, with examples of measurable productivity gains and strategies for quantifying ROI. Register here.

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