Amazon is preparing for one of its largest rounds of job cuts in recent years, with reports indicating that about 30,000 corporate employees will be affected beginning Tuesday. The layoffs are expected to touch several divisions of the company as part of an ongoing effort to reduce costs and streamline operations.
The move comes at a time when the e-commerce major is focusing on cutting expenses after a period of aggressive expansion during the pandemic, when online shopping surged and hiring grew rapidly. Reports suggest that the notifications to affected staff members were scheduled to begin on Tuesday morning in the United States through official company emails.
With more than 1.54 million employees worldwide, including a large workforce in its warehouses, Amazon has been restructuring its teams across multiple departments over the past few years. Since 2022, the company has already reduced its headcount by over 27,000 through smaller rounds of layoffs.
The latest retrenchment is expected to impact employees in divisions such as human resources, Amazon Web Services (AWS), devices and services, and other corporate units. The human resources arm, officially called People Experience and Technology, is said to be among the most affected, with reports suggesting that nearly 15 per cent of its staff could be let go.
The restructuring is part of Amazon chief executive Andy Jassy’s wider cost-cutting plan aimed at removing management layers and making teams more efficient. The company has been seeking to create leaner structures across its business segments, including cloud computing, retail operations, and internal support functions.
Industry trackers have described the current round as one of the biggest single phases of tech layoffs since 2020. According to data from Layoffs.fyi, more than 200 technology companies have already dismissed around 98,000 employees this year alone.
Microsoft, Meta, Google, Intel, and Salesforce are among the major firms that have announced workforce reductions in 2025, with several attributing the changes to organisational restructuring and the growing adoption of artificial intelligence tools.
For Amazon, the upcoming layoffs underline the continuing effort to balance its vast global operations while adjusting to a post-pandemic business environment marked by slower growth and rising operational costs.
