It would be disingenuous of me not to acknowledge Amazon’s massive layoffs, coming right as we head into the holiday season, seeing as I just posted about Amazon’s early Black Friday Apple deals.

Annie Palmer, last month for CNBC:

Amazon said Tuesday that it will lay off about 14,000 corporate employees, marking the latest cuts in the company’s multiyear effort to rein in costs.

In a blog post, the company wrote that the layoffs are being carried out to help make the company leaner and less bureaucratic, while it looks to invest in “our biggest bets” including generative artificial intelligence.

Palmer, today:

Documents filed in New York, California, New Jersey and Amazon’s home state of Washington showed that nearly 40% of the more than 4,700 job cuts in those states were engineering roles.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has been on a multiyear mission to transform the company’s corporate culture into one that operates like what he calls “the world’s largest startup.” He’s looked to make Amazon leaner and less bureaucratic by urging staffers to do more with less and cutting organizational bloat.

Related: There are ongoing calls to boycott Amazon (and Target and Home Depot) from November 27 (Thanksgiving) through December 1 (Cyber Monday) for “enabling” the Trump regime. From “We Ain’t Buying It”:

This action is taking direct aim at Target, for caving to this administration’s biased attacks on DEI; Home Depot, for allowing and colluding with ICE to kidnap our neighbors on their properties; and Amazon, for funding this administration to secure their own corporate tax cuts.

They’re encouraging a “full black out” on spending at those three companies during that long weekend, and urging consumers to redirect their spending to shop “small, local, or with businesses affirming our humanity.”