Today, Amazon announced in a blog post that it intends to cut approximately 16,000 corporate positions, marking its second major round of layoffs since October 2025.
The 30,000 job cuts since late last year represent around 10% of the company’s corporate and tech workforce, which totals about 350,000 people.
Beth Galetti, Senior Vice President of People Experience and Technology at Amazon, addressed staff in the post:
“As I shared in October, we’ve been working to strengthen our organization by reducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing bureaucracy. While many teams finalized their organizational changes in October, other teams did not complete that work until now.
The reductions we are making today will impact approximately 16,000 roles across Amazon, and we’re again working hard to support everyone whose role is impacted. That starts with offering most US-based employees 90 days to look for a new role internally (timing will vary internationally based on local and country level requirements). Then, for teammates who are unable to find a new role at Amazon or who choose not to look for one, we’ll provide transition support including severance pay, outplacement services, health insurance benefits (as applicable), and more.
While we’re making these changes, we’ll also continue hiring and investing in strategic areas and functions that are critical to our future. We’re still in the early stages of building every one of our businesses and there’s significant opportunity ahead.”
Today’s announcement coincides with CEO Andy Jassy’s efforts to reduce Amazon’s workforce, following layoffs of over 27,000 employees between 2022 and 2023.
In June, Jassy stated, “We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs.”
Amazon stock rose 1.5% following the announcement.
By CEO NA Editorial Staff
