Amazon is preparing to lay off as many as 30,000 corporate employees beginning Tuesday, in what would be its largest round of job cuts since 2022.
The move comes as the e-commerce and cloud giant seeks to trim costs, streamline operations, and offset the effects of overhiring during the pandemic boom.
According to Reuters exclusive report citing people familiar with the matter, the planned reduction represents about 10% of Amazon’s 350,000-strong corporate workforce but only a small portion of its total global headcount of roughly 1.55 million employees.
The job cuts will affect multiple divisions, including human resources known internally as the People Experience and Technology (PXT) group, as well as operations, devices and services, and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
The layoffs form part of CEO Andy Jassy’s broader campaign to eliminate what he has described as “excess bureaucracy” within the organization.
“Amazon is likely realizing enough AI-driven productivity gains within corporate teams to support a substantial reduction in force,” said Sky Canaves, an eMarketer analyst, adding that the move also aligns with short-term pressure to offset heavy investments in AI infrastructure.
Managers overseeing affected teams were reportedly briefed on Monday and trained on how to communicate the layoffs, with email notifications expected to begin Tuesday morning.
The upcoming layoffs add to a wave of job cuts sweeping across the global tech sector. According to data from Layoffs.fyi, more than 98,000 tech workers have been laid off so far in 2025, following 153,000 in all of 2024.
Earlier this year, another tech giant, Meta Platforms, announced plans to implement another round of layoffs across its operations in Africa, Europe, and Asia.
However, employees in Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands were exempted from the cuts “due to local regulations,” while those in more than a dozen other countries across Europe, Asia and Africa received their notifications between February 11 and February 18.
Before that announcement, the company had confirmed it was planning to trim about 5% of its “lowest performers” and backfill at least some of the positions.