- Amazon confirms significant job cuts internally, not staff
- Up to 14,000 corporate jobs could be lost
- Divisions across Amazon’s entire corporate workforce could be affected
Amazon has confirmed plans to cut 14,000 corporate jobs as it seeks to operate more effectively.
Beth Galetti, senior vice president of People Experience and Technology, said the cuts would make Amazon “even stronger,” meaning it could shift resources, “to ensure we’re investing in our biggest bets and what matters most for our customers’ current and future needs.”
Major job cuts at Amazon
The move is reportedly a response to Amazon’s oversourcing during the pandemic, when demand for all types of products skyrocketed, leading to huge expansion.
“We are convinced that we must organize in a more agile way, with fewer layers and more ownership, to move forward as quickly as possible for our clients and businesses,” Galetti added.
Amazon has around 1.55 million employees across the company, but the cuts will affect its 350,000 corporate workers, and a report claims several divisions and roles could be affected, with human resources, known as People Experience and Technology (PXT), operations, devices and services; and Amazon Web Services teams will be affected.
The move will mark Amazon’s biggest ever job loss, ahead of the 27,000 positions it cut in 2022 in an apparent bid to save costs, and is slightly better than previous reports that claimed up to 30,000 workers could be laid off.
The company’s CEO, Andy Jassy, had warned in early 2025 that the rise of AI technology at large corporations like Amazon would likely lead to job cuts.
“We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs done today and more people doing other types of jobs,” he said in a memo sent to Amazon staff in June 2025.
“It’s hard to know exactly where this reflects over time, but over the next few years, we expect this to reduce our total corporate workforce as we realize efficiency gains through extensive use of AI across the company.”
Jassy added that staff who embraced such changes would be “well positioned” in the company, noting that Amazon was already using AI agents in “virtually every corner of the company,” adding that “many of these agents haven’t been built yet, but make no mistake, they come and they come fast.”
The news is the latest in a series of layoffs by tech giants in recent months as they take stock of their workforce in the new AI-driven world.
Meta recently cut 600 jobs in its AI division, and Salesforce confirmed it had also lost 4,000 support jobs to AI tools.
Around 9,000 Microsoft workers also lost their jobs in July 2025, around 6,000 also left in May, and several hundred in other smaller adjustments.
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