The scale corresponds to nearly 10 percent. with approx. 350 thousand employed in the corporate segment and would be the largest since the series of layoffs that started at the end of 2022, when a total of approximately 27,000 jobs were eliminated. jobs. An Amazon spokesman declined to comment.
The cuts are part of a broader cost-cutting program following a period of increased hiring during the pandemic. According to informants, they may cover many units, including human resources (People Experience and Technology), the devices and services department, as well as operations. This a continuation of the smaller, scattered reductions of the past two yearswhich touched, among others, teams responsible for devices, communications and podcasts.
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Managers of teams that may be subject to layoffs, On Monday, they were sent to short training on how to conduct conversations with employees after sending e-mail notifications scheduled for Tuesday morning.
Such a schedule is intended to reduce chaos and ensure a consistent message within the organization.
Personnel decisions are influenced by the course taken by CEO Andy Jassy. Amazon's boss for months talks about the need to reduce “excess bureaucracy”including the number of managerial levels. He also introduced an anonymous reporting line to detect inefficiencies. As he reported earlier this year, it brought about 1,500 reports and over 450 process changes.
In June, Jassy directly indicated that the growing use of artificial intelligence tools will lead to further automation of repetitive tasks, and therefore to reducing employment there, where efficiency gains are possible.
External analysts link the announced moves with the effects of AI implementations. According to eMarketer's Sky Canaves, the latest round of cuts signals that “Amazon is achieving large enough AI-powered productivity gains across corporate teams to justify significant job cuts.” At the same time, the company remains under short-term pressure to balance the costs of long-term investments in AI infrastructure.
It is not certain how large the scale of layoffs will ultimately be – the number may change depending on the company's financial priorities. Earlier reports from Fortune indicated that a 15% cut is possible in HR.
Amazon's reductions are part of a broader picture of the technology market. According to calculations by Layoffs.fyi, in 2025, approximately 98,000 jobs have already disappeared from 216 companies in the industry. jobs, and in the whole of 2024 it was 153 thousand.
Despite office cuts, Amazon is preparing for another strong holiday season. The company plans to offer 250,000. seasonal jobs, mainly in logistics centers – this is the same number as in the previous two years.
