Amazon is reportedly getting ready to fire around 30,000 corporate workers. The most significant layoffs since 2022, in a move that has rocked the global IT sector. Thousands of experts are worried about what lies ahead as the e-commerce behemoth, renowned for its unrelenting growth, must make difficult decisions in the face of shifting market conditions and decreasing growth.
The number is close to 10% of Amazon’s approximately 350,000 corporate employees, although it only makes up a small portion of the company’s 1.55 million total workforce. This would be Amazon’s biggest layoff since it began laying off about 27,000 employees in late 2022.
Amazon Representative Choses Not To Comment
Over the past two years, Amazon has reduced the number of employees across a number of businesses, including podcasts, devices, and communications. According to sources, the layoffs that start this week could impact several divisions, including operations, devices and services, Amazon Web Services, and human resources — also known as People Experience and Technology (PXT).
According to the sources, managers of the affected teams were instructed to attend training on Monday on how to interact with employees once email notices began to be sent out on Tuesday morning.
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Andy Jassy, the CEO of Amazon, is taking steps to cut back on what he has called “too much bureaucracy,” including by laying off managers earlier this year. He added that he set up an anonymous complaint line to find inefficiencies, which has resulted in almost 1,500 responses and more than 450 process modifications.
In June, Jassy predicted that more job losses would probably result from the growing usage of AI tools, especially when it comes to automating repetitive and routine jobs. “This latest move signals that Amazon is likely realizing enough AI-driven productivity gains within corporate teams to support substantial reductions in force,” said Sky Canaves, an analyst at eMarketer. “Amazon has also been under pressure in the short term to offset the long-term investments in building out its AI infrastructure.”
Amazon’s Biggest Layoff Yet
It wasn’t immediately clear how many jobs would be cut in this round. According to those with knowledge of the situation, the figure may fluctuate over time as Amazon’s financial priorities change. According to a previous Fortune story, a 15% reduction might be applied to the human resources department.
Another reason for the severity of the layoffs, according to two of the sources, is that a program started earlier this year to get workers back to the office five days a week — one of the strictest in the tech industry — has not produced enough attrition. Because they live far from Amazon’s headquarters or for other reasons, some employees who don’t swipe in every day are being told they have voluntarily left the company and must depart without receiving severance pay.
According to a website that tracks tech job cuts, Layoffs.fyi, 216 companies have lost roughly 98,000 workers so far this year. It came to 153,000 for the entire year 2024.
AWS, the cloud computing division of Amazon, announced second-quarter revenues of $30.9 billion — a 17.5% increase — which was far less than the 39% and 32% gains for Microsoft’s Azure and Alphabet’s Google Cloud, respectively.
AWS’s third-quarter revenues are expected to have increased by roughly 18% to $32 billion, which is a modest slowdown from the 19% increase in the previous year. Many of the most well-known online applications, including Snapchat and Venmo, were taken offline during a 15-hour internet outage last week, leaving AWS still in shock.
Roughly 10% of Amazon’s 350,000 corporate workers will be let go as part of the anticipated reductions. With more than 1.54 million employees worldwide, the corporation is currently the second-largest private employer in the world.
According to sources, the move would be one of the greatest job cutbacks in the technology sector since 2020 and the largest round of layoffs in Amazon’s history. Data from Layoffs.fyi shows that more than 216 IT companies have laid off over 98,000 workers overall so far in 2025, pointing to further sector consolidation.
Large Tech Companies’ Layoffs
India’s luxury sector is seeing an unprecedented boom as the country’s growth story picks up speed and the number of billionaires climbs, with the desire for luxury spreading outside of the metro areas. Indians are spending more money than ever before on everything from costly jewelry and watches to opulent homes and luxury vacations. In an attempt to meet this demand, storied luxury brands are flooding the market, frequently enlisting Indian celebrities as brand ambassadors.
In recent months, other large tech companies have also begun reducing their workforce. According to reports, Microsoft has laid off over 15,000 employees, Meta reduced 600 positions in its AI branch, Google deleted over 100 design-related positions in its cloud division, Salesforce axed 4,000 customer service positions, and Intel made the biggest decrease of the year with 22,000 layoffs.
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