Month: October 2025

• Amazon is laying off 14,000 corporate employees.
• Some workers who said they were laid off from Amazon shared their experiences online.
• They turned to platforms like TikTok and LinkedIn with a mix of jokes and calls to action.

One woman is processing being laid off while on a tropical vacation. Another’s “get ready with me” video turned sour after she said she’d learned her fate.

With as many as 14,000 Amazon employees set to lose their jobs, some workers who said they were laid off by the e-commerce company are posting through it on social media. Several of them are sharing updates in real time as they process their feelings about the reductions.

The person who posted the “get ready with me” video, for example, had planned to take her followers along with her for a morning run when she said he learned she was affected by the cuts.

“I no longer have a job to go to after I go running,” the TikToker said in one of her videos.

A few others are posting almost hourly updates on how they’re doing since the cuts were announced. One user, who said she’s on vacation in Mauritius, posted a video two hours after she said she learned she was laid off.

She said it was “divine intervention.”

“I’m not freaking out,” she said. “I’m also still very much in shock.”

Others don’t seem to be taking it so well. One TikTok creator who said she worked at Amazon told followers on Tuesday, when the company announced the layoffs, to place bets on whether she’d be affected. The next day, she said she’d been let go after more than eight years at the company.

Since then, her updates have been a mix of jokes, including telling her cats the news, and crying videos. One of her videos has gone viral, with nearly 200,000 views in less than 24 hours.

Some posts were bittersweet. One person who said their Amazon Games studio was affected said they would work with their team again “in a heartbeat.”

Others hit the ground running on LinkedIn, changing their status on the professional networking platform to “#OpenToWork” and asking connections for leads on open positions.

On Reddit, dozens of people have begun crowdsourcing a list of affected roles and divisions to determine which areas were hit the hardest.

Posting through the pain of being laid off isn’t a new concept. Many people, specifically Gen Zers, have gone viral in posts about losing their jobs. It’s all about validating their feelings about being fired and seeking human connection, one workplace researcher told Business Insider in 2024.

Amazon declined to comment on the social media posts.

This week, one woman said she was working in her “dream role” as a social media manager at Amazon before being laid off less than a month after celebrating her one-year anniversary in the position and a week before her birthday.

“I guess my present from Amazon came a little bit early,” she said in the clip.

• Job-listings platform, Indeed, created a “GenAI Skill Transformation Index.”
• The index assesses how AI is affecting 2,900 skills.
• The chart below shows which jobs are being transformed the most, and which roles are unaffected.

Generative AI is steadily rewiring the DNA of work, radically transforming some jobs, while other professions remain relatively immune.

That’s according to a new analysis from Indeed, a job-listings platform, that created an index to track these workplace changes.

Indeed’s GenAI Skill Transformation Index measures how much generative AI could change the way different skills or jobs are performed. Instead of measuring whether this technology will fully replace human workers, it examines how skills may be applied going forward and how human involvement with those skills and tasks could evolve.

The study and index assessed the cognitive and physical demands required across nearly 2,900 work skills and the capacity of generative AI to perform them. Indeed focused on two particular criteria:

Problem-solving ability: The degree to which a skill requires cognitive reasoning, applied knowledge, and practical judgment, and how well generative AI can replicate this.

Physical necessity: Whether a skill requires physical execution. Until general-purpose robotics advances significantly, these tasks remain mostly human-exclusive, according to Indeed.

Based on this evaluation, skills were grouped into four distinct categories based on their potential to be transformed by generative AI: minimal transformation, assisted transformation, hybrid transformation, and full transformation.

Key findings

Under this framework, Indeed found the following:

• 41% of the almost 2,900 common work skills assessed are exposed to the highest potential levels of GenAI-driven transformation.

• More than a quarter (26%) of jobs posted on Indeed in the past year could be “highly” transformed by GenAI.

• The majority (54%) of jobs posted on Indeed in the past year are likely to be “moderately” transformed, and their evolution will depend on how quickly businesses adopt GenAI and how well workers adapt and reskill.

• Almost half (46%) of skills in a typical US job posting are poised for “hybrid transformation” by GenAI. Human oversight will remain critical when applying these skills, but GenAI can already perform a significant portion of routine work.

• Some occupations, including software development, are more highly exposed. Roles requiring more physical presence and human interaction, including nursing, are likely to be less impacted, with GenAI primarily changing administrative tasks but not necessarily the core parts of these jobs.

When Indeed ran an initial version of this analysis a year ago, no skills were rated as “very likely” to be fully replaced by GenAI. Today, 19 skills (0.7% of all skills analyzed) were assessed to be “very likely” to be fully replaced by GenAI, still small in absolute terms, but a significant signal of progress.

“GenAI has gotten (and continues to get) smarter,” Annina Hering, senior economist at Indeed’s Hiring Lab, and Arcenis Rojas, a data scientist at the lab, wrote. “As long as physical execution is not required — an admittedly big caveat — and GenAI capabilities continue to grow, more skills are likely to cross the threshold into realistic automation as work continues to evolve.”

The outlook for different jobs

The latest findings reveal that childcare, nursing, and construction are the least likely to be transformed by generative AI.

Meanwhile, software development is most likely to be transformed by generative AI. Eighty-one percent of the skills involved in these jobs will experience a hybrid transformation in which GenAI leads and humans provide oversight, according to Indeed’s index.

Data & Analytics and accounting were second and third, behind software development, as most likely to be transformed by GenAI.

The overall message is pretty blunt: no job is entirely immune, but not all jobs are equally exposed. Technical and information-heavy roles will feel the brunt of automation, while jobs grounded in physical presence and human touch will remain mostly shielded.

For businesses, that means redesigning workflows and training pipelines. For workers, it means leaning into uniquely human strengths, such as physical dexterity, informed oversight, and empathy, that AI still can’t replicate well.

Here’s the full breakdown of jobs and skills:

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