Amazon To Cut Up To 30,000 Corporate Jobs

Amazon will start laying off corporate employees this week. It is expected that up to 30,000 jobs, or 10% of Amazon’s global corporate workforce, will be cut in this end-of-year restructure.

The cuts will most likely affect multiple departments, including human resources, operations, devices and services, and Amazon Web Services. This is the second largest round of layoffs for Amazon since 2022, when they let go of more than 27,000 employees.

GlobalData MD, Neil Saunders, reports that “the Amazon layoffs are dramatic in scale, and they represent a deep cleaning of Amazon’s corporate workforce (…) they are the latest in a long line of efficiency drives which has seen Amazon focus its efforts more sharply in terms of its corporate divisions. While Amazon could never be described as a flabby organisation, it has become more complex and layered over time and there is scope for some simplification.”

Amazon AI-powered Insights

The rise of AI tools at Amazon is likely a key driver for the layoffs, particularly as Amazon just announced the hiring of 250,000 seasonal workers across the fulfillment and transportation departments in the US to manage the upcoming holiday season.