- Amazon confirms major job cuts internally not to staff
- Up to 14,000 business roles may be lost
- Divisions across the entire Amazon workforce may be affected
Amazon has confirmed plans to cut 14,000 corporate jobs as it looks to operate more efficiently.
Beth Galetti, Senior Vice President of People Experience and Technology, noted that the cuts would make Amazon “even stronger,” meaning it could shift resources “to make sure we’re investing in our biggest efforts and what matters most to our customers’ current and future needs.”
Major Amazon job cuts
The move is reportedly a response to Amazon’s overstaffing during the pandemic, as demand for all kinds of products increased, leading to massive expansion.
“We strongly believe that we need to be organized more leanly, with fewer layers and more ownership, to move as quickly as possible for our customers and business,” Galetti added.
Amazon has around 1.55 million employees across the company, but the cuts will affect its 350,000 corporate employees, with a report claiming a number of divisions and roles could be affected, with human resources, known as People Experience and Technology (PXT), operations, units and services; and Amazon Web Services teams are all poised to be affected.
The move will be Amazon’s biggest job loss ever, ahead of the 27,000 jobs it cut in 2022 in an apparent effort to cut costs, and is slightly better than previous reports that claimed up to 30,000 workers could be let go.
The company’s CEO Andy Jassy had previously warned in 2025 that the rise of AI technology at large companies such as Amazon was likely to lead to job cuts.
“We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are done today and more people doing other types of jobs,” he said in a memo sent to Amazon employees in June 2025.
“It’s hard to know exactly where this will play out over time, but over the next few years we expect this to reduce our overall workforce as we achieve efficiencies by using AI widely across the business.”
Jassy added that staff who embraced such changes would be “well positioned” at the company, noting that Amazon was already using AI agents in “pretty much every corner of the business,” adding, “many of these agents have yet to be built, but make no mistake, they are coming and coming fast.”
The news is the latest in a string of layoffs from tech giants in recent months as they take stock of their workforces in the new AI-driven world.
Meta recently cut 600 jobs in its AI division, with Salesforce confirming that it had also shed 4,000 support jobs in favor of AI tools.
About 9,000 Microsoft employees also lost their jobs in July 2025, and about 6,000 also left in May, and several hundred in other, smaller adjustments.
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