Amazon to lay off 30,000 corporate employees in largest job cut since 2022, reports

Amazon is preparing for one of its biggest corporate shake-ups in years. The tech giant is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs starting Tuesday, according to three people familiar with the matter who spoke with Reuters. The move marks a new phase in Amazon’s cost-cutting efforts after years of aggressive expansion fueled by pandemic-driven demand.

The reduction affects nearly 10% of Amazon’s roughly 350,000 corporate employees, though it represents a small fraction of the company’s 1.55 million total workforce. Still, it’s the largest round of layoffs since the company cut around 27,000 roles beginning in late 2022—a painful but defining moment that signaled a shift away from the company’s “growth at all costs” playbook.

“Amazon is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning Tuesday, as the company works to pare expenses and compensate for overhiring during the peak demand of the pandemic,” Reuters reported, citing three people familiar with the matter.

An Amazon spokesperson declined to comment.

The news comes just a day after The New York Times reported Amazon was planning to replace more than half a million jobs with robots.

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Over the past two years, Amazon has quietly trimmed smaller numbers of staff across divisions such as devices, communications, podcasting, and human resources. The new wave is expected to stretch across several units, including People Experience and Technology (Amazon’s HR arm), devices and services, and operations. Managers in those departments were reportedly asked to undergo training on Monday on how to communicate the cuts to their teams, with formal notifications set to begin Tuesday morning via email.

The layoffs come as Amazon looks to rein in expenses and correct for overhiring during the pandemic years, when online demand soared and the company raced to keep up. Shares of Amazon were up 1.5% to $227.53 on Monday, ahead of its third-quarter earnings report scheduled for Thursday.

Amazon’s move is part of a larger trend across the tech industry, where companies are recalibrating after years of unchecked hiring. Just last week, Applied Materials announced plans to lay off about 1,400 employees—roughly 4% of its workforce—citing changing global demand and new trade restrictions.

So far this year, more than 200 tech companies have cut close to 92,000 jobs, according to Layoffs.fyi. For Amazon, this round marks another difficult step in reshaping a company that grew too large, too fast—and is now trying to right-size its workforce for a new economic reality.