Amazon is preparing to lay off about 30,000 corporate employees starting Tuesday, in what will be the biggest workforce reduction since the company’s founding. The move marks a major step in its ongoing cost-cutting strategy under CEO Andy Jassy.
According to reports, the layoffs will affect nearly every part of Amazon’s vast corporate structure, with employees expected to receive email notifications. The company has not issued an official comment on the job cuts.
Amazon currently employs around 350,000 corporate workers, meaning nearly 9 percent of its white-collar staff will be impacted. Globally, Amazon has a total workforce of 1.54 million, most of whom work in warehouse and logistics operations.
Data from Layoffs.fyi shows that this will be the largest single round of tech layoffs since the platform began tracking job cuts in 2020. So far this year, over 200 technology companies have dismissed around 98,000 employees. Industry giants including Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Intel have also announced significant reductions.
Microsoft has eliminated 15,000 roles in 2025, Meta recently cut 600 jobs in its AI division, and Google laid off more than 100 employees in its cloud design team. Intel leads the list with 22,000 job cuts this year, while Salesforce has also cited artificial intelligence as a reason for downsizing.
The new layoffs continue Amazon’s efforts to streamline operations and reduce expenses. Since 2022, the company has already cut more than 27,000 roles across cloud services, retail, devices, and communications units. Jassy has introduced a structural overhaul aimed at flattening management layers and improving efficiency.
In a memo shared in June, Jassy warned that Amazon’s growing use of generative AI would likely reduce the need for certain roles, saying the company will “need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today.”
The tech industry faced a record wave of job losses in 2023, when over 260,000 positions were eliminated due to inflation and high interest rates. This latest round suggests that pressure on tech employment remains high and could intensify further in 2025.
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