According to @ReutersBiz, thousands of jobs have been cut at Amazon, UPS, and Nestlé while the outlet examines how automation and AI are colliding with post-pandemic hiring trends, source: Reuters Business, Nov 2, 2025, https://reut.rs/4qSqJiO. The segment led by business editor David Gaffen explores whether AI-driven automation is a contributing factor to these reductions rather than the sole cause, source: Reuters Business, Nov 2, 2025, https://reut.rs/4qSqJiO. The report focuses on automation’s interaction with companies’ staffing decisions after the pandemic hiring surge and frames the question without assigning definitive causality to AI, source: Reuters Business, Nov 2, 2025, https://reut.rs/4qSqJiO.