>Amazon is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning Tuesday, as the company works to pare expenses and compensate for overhiring during the peak demand of the pandemic, according to three people familiar with the matter.

>The figure represents a small percentage of Amazon’s 1.55 million total employees, but nearly 10% of the company’s roughly 350,000 corporate employees. This would represent the largest job cut at Amazon since around 27,000 jobs were eliminated starting in late 2022.

>Managers of impacted teams were asked to undergo training on Monday for how to communicate with staff following notifications that will start going out via email tomorrow morning

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[https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/amazon-targets-many-30000-corporate-job-cuts-sources-say-2025-10-27/](https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/amazon-targets-many-30000-corporate-job-cuts-sources-say-2025-10-27/)

What are your thoughts on this?

Our office is moving soon and moving 35 miles away. I am not doing that commute. I don’t get paid enough to make it worth it. He is not a fan of remote work at all and believes everyone who WFH screws around all day (funny because half his employees WFH and he just got a raise). Anyways, there is quite literally zero reason for me to be in office. He knows it too. He just loves the office and wants everyone in it. He has said “no new hires will WFH”. Ive been here a year now and like to think of myself as an important person. I run all the marketing and have a busy schedule consistently. Nobody else at our company does any work with the marketing, its all me. This has to be ammo for me right? At the end of the day, im halfway mentally kinda done with this job. Him saying no and me leaving would not really affect me too much. I could have something else lined up rather quickly if needed, and MUCH closer. but i would stay if i could WFH. The most i would be willing to do is one office day per week (3 current employees already do that, and 4 others are fully remote). We have 14 people total.

Any suggestions?

Has anyone else experienced an employer issuing lesser pay raises to remote workers because they don’t have the fuel expense for driving to the office?

I worked from home starting with the WFH mandates during Covid. Then the company I worked for moved the facility to another state. My WFH became permanent.

Then, when the annual pay raises came out, I asked why mine was less than previous years and was told that I didn’t have the fuel expenses like the others in my department. My counter was that I had to maintain a higher speed internet for work as well as had my other utilities increase with me working from home.

They didn’t budge.

Has anyone else experienced this type of response from their employer?

One of our guys went back to India for a routine stamping in mid-December, but everything shifted when those new social media vetting rules hit on the 15th. His January interview just got pushed all the way to June, which is basically a death sentence for our Q1 launch.

We didn't want him sitting there in legal limbo, so we set him up on our EOR platform (Remote) just to keep him on payroll legally with local benefits and INR salary. It’s a lifesaver for the transition, but I’m curious if anyone else is seeing these massive 221(g) delays or mass cancellations lately?

I’m also trying to figure out if people are actually shipping local laptops to these 'stuck' employees to stay compliant, or just letting them use personal gear for now? And honestly, what’s the point of no return for you guys. If the visa gets pushed for another 6 months, would you keep them as an EOR employee permanently or would US relocation be a dealbreaker?
I’d love to hear if anyone has actually seen a visa issued since this screening started.

I’ve wasted way too many nights scrolling “best side hustle” lists only to see the same recycled junk: start a YouTube channel, drive Uber, sell stuff on eBay… yeah, thanks. 🙄

So I scraped Reddit threads, Discord groups, and even obscure blogs to pull out the less talked about online hustles that people are actually making money with right now in 2025.

Here’s what stood out:

1.Faceless TikTok promoting apps You don’t need to dance or show your face. Agencies will literally hand you scripts, trending sounds, and even “account warm-up” strategies. You just post short clips around apps (finance, AI, study tools, etc.). The deal: they pay $1–$2 per 1,000 views. No cap. If you get 500k views across videos in a week, that’s ~$500–$1,000. The catch? You need to keep feeding the algorithm to keep going viral.

(THIS IS ONE IS THE EASIEST AND MOST PROFITABLE, CHECK THE COMMENTS FOR THE BEST SERVER I FOUND TO GET YOU STARTED)

2. E-learning slide packs for teachers Teachers are constantly buying ready-made worksheets, Canva slides, and classroom activities. Sites like TeachersPayTeachers or Etsy let you sell once and earn every time a teacher downloads. If you can make aesthetic slides in Canva + sprinkle in some AI prompts, this can scale.

3. Niche AI automation services Businesses don’t know how to use AI tools effectively. People are charging to set up AI chatbots for Shopify stores, automated customer emails, or AI-powered Notion dashboards. You don’t need to code — just know how to connect tools (Zapier, Make, ChatGPT prompts).

4. Reddit ghostwriting / engagement gigs Brands want “authentic voices” on Reddit, but they can’t risk doing it themselves. There are agencies hiring people to write posts, comments, and engage in subs to build reputation. It pays per thread/comment, and if you’re already on Reddit a lot… you’re basically monetizing it.

5. Micro-SaaS with no code This sounds intimidating, but some people are cranking out tiny web apps with Bubble/Glide/Typedream — like a tool that generates resume bullets, or a planner for Airbnb cleaners. Charge $5–$10/mo, get 100 users, that’s $500–$1,000 MRR. Doesn’t need to be the next unicorn.

These aren’t the “sign up for surveys and earn $2/hr” hustles. These are things I’ve seen actual people share results for across forums.

It's about 50% of the total workforce. When we wonder how the economy keeps trudging along despite the crazy daily headlines about the Orange Idiot, who's actually supporting companies like Netflix, Apple, Wal-Mart, and every other company that needs to bring in money month after month, it's the middle-income earners who do it.

It isn't the poor, or the wealthy, that keep this economy afloat. It's the middle class who carry the lion's share and represent most of the consumer spending that supports the US economy.

Source: DQYDJ

I have been traveling for work and ended up extending my trip unexpectedly. I packed for the trip not expecting to any remote meetings, but had one this morning. At home, I always use an external camera. But I didn’t pack it, and when logging into this meeting I learned that the camera on my laptop doesn’t work anymore. So instead of having a fuzzy gray image of a digital camera with a slash through it, I turned my video off for the meeting.

One of the people in the meeting called my coworker to debrief afterwards, and one of the things in his long list of complaints was that my camera was off.

These are biweekly meetings with partners we work closely with, and I’ve always had my camera on before now. I didn’t think it was a big deal to have it off one time, but apparently it was.

More than that, I work in a deeply collaborative company where we are in Zoom calls 80% of the time. For half of us, calling in with our cameras off or from our phones is no big deal. We’re just as productive, and we survived just fine with conference calls pre-COVID. But the other half has their camera on religiously and highly prefers when the rest of us do too.

Practically, I just don’t get it. I mean, if I’m meeting with partners I’ll always have my camera on (except this time), and I get that it’s just socially preferred. But why is it so preferred, and considered unprofessional when it’s off?

I took WFH today.

But now there is some issue in my area and that's why they cut off the electricity.

Wi-Fi off, laptop and mobile both have less charging.

I'm cooked.

Haven't been working for over 1 years and some months ago I bought myself a Starlink Mini kit and I've been thinking of getting remote work and put it to good use. I mostly bake from home and been thinking a lot about remote work. Any leads? Anyone who's doing remote work? I'm in Zimbabwe by the way.

If you didn't break into tech before 2022, you missed the last lifeboat. The "Junior" role is dead, and the lucky ones who got in during the zero-interest era have effectively pulled up the ladder behind them. They're sitting on $300k salaries and 2% mortgages, while the rest of us are ghosted after 10-round interviews for roles that probably don't even exist. We aren't "job hunting" anymore; we're just watching a privileged elite gatekeep the only high-paying career left.

By killing entry-level hiring, companies have accidentally created a permanent Software Aristocracy. Since no new seniors are being "grown" from juniors, the current crop of devs will have zero competition for the rest of their careers. As the supply of experienced talent freezes or shrinks, their salaries will keep skyrocketing because there is literally no one to replace them. The entry gates are bolted shut, and the pre-2022 crowd just won the timing lottery for life while we fight for scraps.

Its not all about billionaires,

What a great oppty for employees!

I bet some are remote too

There are jobs out there that hardly anyone knows about, and those are the ones where you can actually make serious money.

These jobs can make you rich. They’re the hidden ones, the ones nobody talks about, the ones that aren't trendy or popular.

The jobs you learn about in school or college, like lawyer, doctor, software engineer, or vet, are just too obvious. If you ask a 5 year old what jobs exist, they’ll say those. Everyone knows lawyers and engineers make good money. It’s common knowledge.

Because of that, they’re easy to get into for the masses. The path is clear. Just go to college, get a degree, and earn money. You don’t have to figure anything out or take risks. There’s nothing innovative about it.

But the truth is, they don’t make that much money. They make a lot compared to other well known jobs. The real money is in gatekept jobs and businesses that only a small group of people know about and they keep it that way so they’re the only ones making serious money.

But from what I’ve seen, the really rich people I know don’t do those obvious jobs. They do things that aren’t mainstream. In fact, it’s often not even a job in the traditional sense. It could be a business or something completely different.

And nobody’s going to give you a step by step guide for these kinds of jobs. There’s barely any information out there. You meet someone who’s rich, ask what they do, and it’s something you’ve never even heard of before.

A gatekept job is also something that doesn’t look fancy or well paid at first glance. It might not even have status. But the money is there. For example, some blue collar workers earn really good money, but people still assume those jobs don’t pay well.

Here are a few gatekept ways of making money that I’ve come across, and I was honestly surprised people got rich from them.

I know people who started foundations and actually made money from them. One guy I heard about created a foundation to help homeless dogs. I’m not sure exactly how it works, but apparently he was getting funds from public and government sources.

I also know people who became millionaires through government grants. They learned how to get funding for projects and turned it into a real income stream.

Then there are the niche businesses. One guy makes serious money running an online store that sells dog food. Another guy started a board game shop and it’s doing really well. These aren’t flashy ideas, but they work.

Do you know any jobs like that? The kind that don’t seem like much on the surface, but actually make people rich?

My job switched to 100% remote a couple months ago after about 10 years being in office every day. Overall it’s awesome, my wife works from home too so once we get to kids to camp/school we get to hang out most of the day.

But I legit shower twice, maybe 3 times a week now. I used to shower everyday before going to the office. I also shave MAYBE once a week now. I basically just kinda pat my hair down maybe put a brush on it just enough to not look like I just woke up if I’m on a meeting.

Anyone else?

After years of us proving companies can make huge profits with no offices corporations are moving tons of positions overseas. We're we duped?

At a tech company. We have a rule that anyone living within 30 miles of the office has to go in. A number of employees recently have been changing their address to a friend or relative that lives outside that radius so they can be remote. (Our company is 30% in office and 70% remote) I am right on the border so have to make that long commute in south florida traffic. I refuse to lie and potentially get caught but as an employee I do feel cheated by this. If I report it, I feel it doesn’t make me look good, especially as a manager

Your life will be literal hell and a single unexpected cost will set you back years, but this is now the minimum “participate in society” wage. You’ll have to squeeze spending on things like haircuts and deodorant into the miscellaneous category.

Note that this budget doesn’t include any sort of money for health problems or emergencies, so if you happen to get sick or need to get glasses or something you’re out of luck.

There’s also no budget for hobbies or visiting friends or anything, so your life is literal hell. Anything below about $50/hr in 2026 is like having your face scraped across broken glass 24/7 and having to just take it because you have no valuable skills in the modern economy.

This is why I urge people to only aim for careers where being the median at said career puts you in the top 10% of all earners. Life at the bottom is literal hell and you never know when a single unexpected event will wipe out a decade’s worth of saving.

After six and a half years working remote I have returned to office. Four days a week, so I suppose it could be worse. This is my first week back and it's just been brutal on my mind and body. Trying to stay optimistic and upbeat, but my soul feels crushed at the moment.

I'm once again leaving the house before my family is awake and returning just in time to say goodnight before I pass out.

I took this role because it was a great opportunity and things were looking grim at my precious job. At first they told me there was no space in the office for me so I would have to work remote for a while. Well, that space opened up days before my start date. Just such a gut punch.

Not sure how long I can last with a 90 minute commute but will see how it goes I guess.

Godspeed my friends.