{"id":95472,"date":"2026-03-05T09:36:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T09:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/amazon-lays-off-employees-in-division-that-vp-said-remains-strategic-priority\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T09:36:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T09:36:21","slug":"amazon-lays-off-employees-in-division-that-vp-said-remains-strategic-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/amazon-lays-off-employees-in-division-that-vp-said-remains-strategic-priority\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon lays off employees in division that VP said remains &#8216;strategic priority&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has laid off at least 100 employees in its robotics division\u2014the unit that designs and builds automation systems for its warehouse network. The cuts are the latest in a cost-cutting campaign that has eliminated more than 57,000 corporate roles since late 2022, following a pandemic-era hiring spree. The reductions come as Amazon shelves its Blue Jay warehouse robot after less than six months and pivots toward a new modular warehouse system called Orbital.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has laid off at least 100 employees in its robotics division\u2014the unit that designs and builds automation systems for its warehouse network. The cuts are the latest in a cost-cutting campaign that has eliminated more than 57,000 corporate roles since late 2022, following a pandemic-era hiring spree. The reductions come as Amazon shelves its&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/amazon-lays-off-employees-in-division-that-vp-said-remains-strategic-priority\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon lays off employees in division that VP said remains &#8216;strategic priority&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":95473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}