Amazon said it will eliminate around 16,000 corporate jobs in its second round of mass job cuts since last October.
In a blog post, Amazon's senior vice president of people experience and technology, Beth Galetti, announced that the job cuts were to strengthen the company’s organisation and remove bureaucracy.
This comes just a few months after the company let go of 14,000 employees across its corporate workforce.
While Galetti didn’t rule out more job cuts, she said the company doesn’t plan to make it a pattern every few months.
“Some of you might ask if this is the beginning of a new rhythm – where we announce broad reductions every few months. That’s not our plan,” she said.
“But just as we always have, every team will continue to evaluate the ownership, speed, and capacity to invent for customers, and make adjustments as appropriate.”
Galetti also said the company intends to support everyone whose role is impacted.
“That starts with offering most US-based employees 90 days to look for a new role internally (timing will vary internationally based on local and country level requirements),” she said.
“Then, for teammates who are unable to find a new role at Amazon or who choose not to look for one, we'll provide transition support including severance pay, outplacement services, health insurance benefits (as applicable), and more.”
Amazon had around 1.58 million employees as of the end of its third quarter, primarily made up of warehouse and logistics workers.
The 30,000 job cuts since October account for around 10% of its corporate and tech workforce, which is made up of about 350,000 people.
This follows the company’s significant downsizing over the past few years, including when it laid off more than 27,000 employees between 2022 and 2024, followed by smaller cuts in 2024.
This came after the company went on a hiring spree during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since then, CEO Andy Jassy has looked to slim down the workforce in a bid to reset Amazon’s corporate culture.
The company is also becoming more reliant on AI, as Jassy said that efficiency gains from the new technology would likely lead to a headcount fall in the coming years.
“We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs,” Jassy said last June.
Last October, Amazon said it expects capital expenditures to reach $125 billion for 2026, the highest spending forecast among the megacap companies.
At the time of writing, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) stocks have fallen 0.68% to US$243.01. The company’s market cap is US$2.60 trillion.
