Amazon is planning to cut 49,000 desks from its office footprint in perhaps the biggest shift in its real estate strategy since it courted offers from cities and states for a second headquarters in 2017.Management told members of Amazon’s global real estate and facilities group on Feb. 3 that the company aims to cut its average office vacancy from around 31% to just under 23% this year, according to a transcript of the call obtained by the Puget Sound Business Journal.
The space-saving goal could impact more than 14M SF of the tech giant’s office space if each desk is assigned to one worker, with the average workspace having 146 SF per worker in 2024, according to CBRE...
...“As we roll out more Generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done,” he said. “We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs.”...
Rsk: This is cutting down the space leased and not necessarily jobs. But the article hints there will be some job cuts as Ai becomes more prominent. Read the last sentence...it says it all.
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