Amazon is preparing a second round of corporate job cuts as early as next week, as part of a broader plan to reduce around 30,000 white-collar roles, according to people familiar with the matter. The move follows a previous round in October that eliminated roughly 14,000 corporate positions, about half of the total target first reported by Reuters. The upcoming cuts are expected to be similar in scale and could begin as soon as Tuesday, though details may still change.
The reductions are expected to affect teams across Amazon Web Services, retail operations, Prime Video and the human resources division known internally as People Experience and Technology. Amazon declined to comment on the plans. If completed, the cuts would represent nearly 10% of Amazon’s corporate workforce, though only a small fraction of its 1.58 million global employees, most of whom work in fulfillment centers and warehouses.
Amazon previously linked job reductions to the rise of artificial intelligence, but CEO Andy Jassy later said the cuts were driven more by company culture and bureaucracy than by financial pressure or AI alone. Jassy has repeatedly said Amazon expects its corporate workforce to shrink over time as efficiency gains from AI tools and automation reduce the need for layers of management. The layoffs would mark the largest workforce reduction in Amazon’s history, surpassing the roughly 27,000 jobs cut in 2022.
