Amazon Eliminates Hundreds of Seattle Jobs in Rare Cutback
- E-commerce segments to shrink while Alexa and cloud units grow
- Some see increasing shift toward automation of some functions
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Amazon.com Inc. is cutting hundreds of jobs at its headquarters in Seattle, paring back older departments focused on selling goods online while hiring in newer lines of business like cloud computing and its Alexa platform.
The reductions are part of a broader reorganization at the company, but some see the moves as a shift toward using more robots and computers for functions once performed by humans.