In another shocker for the corporate world, and employees in particular, Amazon is set to cut around 30,000 corporate jobs starting Tuesday (local time). The move comes as part of a major cost-cutting effort to streamline operations after overhiring during the Covid-19 pandemic, Reuters reported.
Although this number is a minor fraction of Amazon's 1.55 million workforce, it constitutes 10 percent of the company's approximately 350,000 corporate employees, signifying the most major job cut since the 27,000 layoffs that occurred between late 2022 and early 2023.
The recent series of layoffs is anticipated to impact multiple departments, such as Human Resources (People Experience and Technology), Devices and Services, and Operations. Managers from the impacted teams reportedly received training on Monday (local time) on how to convey the layoffs, with email notifications to employees starting on Tuesday.
Amazon has been gradually reducing its staff across different business areas over the past two years, including devices, communications, and podcasting.
In July 2025, the company laid off several hundred employees from its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud division, and in May, nearly 100 positions were cut from its devices and services unit. Bloomberg previously reported that around 110 jobs were recently eliminated in Amazon's Wondery podcast division.
According to data from Layoffs.fyi, nearly 98,000 tech jobs have been cut so far in 2025 across 216 companies. The total for 2024 stood at 153,000, reflecting a continued consolidation trend in the technology sector.
