Amazon stated Wednesday it plans to get rid of about 16,000 company jobs, marking its second spherical of mass job cuts since final October.
In a weblog put up, the corporate wrote that the layoffs had been a part of an ongoing effort to “strengthen our group by decreasing layers, growing possession, and eradicating forms.” That coincides with a push to make investments closely in synthetic intelligence.
The job reductions come only a few months after October’s layoffs, when 14,000 staff had been let go throughout Amazon’s company workforce. On the time, the corporate indicated the cuts would proceed in 2026 because it discovered “extra locations we will take away layers.”
Beth Galetti, Amazon’s senior vp of individuals expertise and expertise, did not rule out extra job cuts sooner or later, however stated the corporate is not making an attempt to create “a brand new rhythm” of broad layoffs each few months.
“That is not our plan,” Galetti wrote within the weblog put up. “However simply as we at all times have, each workforce will proceed to guage the possession, pace, and capability to invent for purchasers, and make changes as acceptable.”
On Tuesday, some staff in Amazon’s cloud unit acquired an e mail despatched in an obvious error acknowledging “organizational modifications” on the firm. The observe referenced a put up from Galetti and stated Amazon notified “impacted colleagues in our group.”
Amazon had about 1.58 million staff as of the top of its third quarter. That determine is primarily made up of warehouse and logistics staff.
The 30,000 job cuts since October symbolize about 10% of its company and tech workforce, which contains about 350,000 folks.
The Amazon headquarters within the South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025.
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Amazon has been within the midst of a major downsizing for the previous a number of years. The corporate laid off greater than 27,000 staff between 2022 and 2023, and it performed smaller cuts throughout numerous organizations in 2024.
CEO Andy Jassy has appeared to slim down Amazon’s workforce after the corporate went on a hiring spree through the Covid-19 pandemic, partly to fulfill a surge in demand for e-commerce and cloud computing companies.
Jassy has additionally appeared to reset Amazon’s company tradition in order that it may function just like the “world’s largest startup.” He set inside targets to slash administration layers and established a “no forms e mail alias” to determine methods the corporate can innovate quicker.
Amazon has additionally been reducing prices throughout its enterprise in order that it may make investments extra in AI and the speedy build-out of information facilities. Earlier this week, the corporate shuttered its Recent and Go grocery chains after years of experimentation.
Final October, Amazon stated it expects capital expenditures to achieve $125 billion for 2026, the highest spending forecast among the many megacap corporations.
Jassy stated final June that effectivity beneficial properties from AI would probably trigger Amazon’s company head depend to fall within the coming years.
“We’ll want fewer folks doing a number of the jobs which might be being performed at the moment, and extra folks doing different kinds of jobs,” Jassy stated on the time.
