I would assumed may be 5%, given there will be bunch of operational guys. Implementations teams…etc. and god forbids management Of course when the projects are no more, then the PM’s are also cut. But….. you don’t need that many PM (in ratio) to begin with anyways. Answer from Icy_Acanthisitta7741 on reddit.com
CNBC
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Amazon laying off about 14000 corporate workers
October 28, 2025 - Amazon is laying off 14,000 corporate employees. The company said it's cutting roles to help make the company leaner and less bureaucratic, while it looks to invest in generative artificial intelligence.
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An update from SVP Beth Galetti on Amazon workforce reduction
October 28, 2025 - For our teammates who are unable to find a new role at Amazon or who choose not to look for one, we’ll offer them transition support including severance pay, outplacement services, health insurance benefits, and more.
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September 10, 2025Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs while sitting on $100 billion in cash. Is this just way to cover up the losses for their failing investment into their AI Innovation?
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October 7, 2024How many of those 14,000 laid off employees at Amazon because of AI were PM roles?
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Amazon said that they don't need so many people due to AI. We have already seen companies telling engineers to use AI project management tools,
Could Amazon be doing the same internally?
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Amazon really went the wrong direction. They began to layer on roles that weren't value add - they expanded their HR department (Equity, L&D, Recruitment, Total Rewards & Comp, Policy) and you had an HR department bigger than some revenue generators. Then the policies became bonkers. You had forced promotions; you had a situation where the leadership structure went bonkers - individual contributors reporting to team leads who reported to managers who reported to sr. managers who reported to directors, who reported to sr. directors who reported to VPs who reported to SVPs. And you had people with 2 or 3 leaders. It was insane. Amazon became clunky. Every single hardware project was losing millions, if not billions of dollars. Their M&A and strategic acquisitions weren't paying off. They hired well over 150,000 people during COVID, many of them non FC roles and then had nowhere for them to go. Amazon went after the HR roles in the first wave. My guess this wave comprises a lot of people that aren't "value add" positions and they want a flatter organization, with fewer reporting structures that overlap. It makes sense. Amazon became like a bank and it was untenable. You cannot innovate that way. I will also say this: When I interacted with product, partner and implementation teams at Amazon I was amazed that they were really bargain basement. All had an MBA from a reputable school but were clearly not working diligently. I remember one call with a product rep and she was at a spa and had put her phone so she could talk while getting a manicure and hand massage. Her colleague later took a call from a poolside in Portugal. I mean, we're talking about seven-figure business partnerships and neither could be arsed to show up on time, wear clothes or pay attention.
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I spent the last 3 weeks heavily, and I mean VERY heavily, going through just about anything product and project management related that uses or focuses on AI. Aside from streamlining BRDs into PRDs (with context...): Easier time writing emails. Consolidating all kinds of notes to find action items and stay on top of stuff. Easier time gathering status updates (that are already written or discussed). It can't do stakeholder management. It can't do any verbal or visual conversation replacements -- and even if it did, when AGI finally becomes a thing, good luck having it understand human emotion or deeply rooted politics. It can't create from nothing or even very short context. It can't derive a solution to a problem that is not expressed and formulated. It can't look across the org or scope of the project and tell you that Timmy likes to deep work from 10 to 2, answer emails at 2:30, then bounce by 3 so good luck getting deliverables out on time (and then it can't tell Timmy to pucker up or talk to his manager). It can't create a timeline when it doesn't know what stretch and sprint you're trying to achieve. It can't tell the PgM or the sponsor that finance forgot to pay an invoice so your contractor is on hold. I work for a MANGO and I promised I searched very deep in the org for solutions. I am uniquely positioned to look at these things. Aside from executives, sales, and marketing circling the wagon, true ML/LLM work is the same as its been for ~25+ years -- best kept with the experts for actual stuff that matters.
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Amazon just cut 14000 jobs, and it's not done
October 28, 2025 - Amazon said it would cut 14,000 corporate staffers this year in a mass layoff aimed at readying the company for wide adoption of AI technology.
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Amazon says it didn't cut 14000 people because of money. ...
October 30, 2025 - Amazon chief executive Andy Jassy’s explanation for why the company is cutting 14,000 employees? Not money. Not even AI, but “culture.” · The layoff announcement this week was “not really financially driven, and it’s not even really AI driven, not right now.
Reuters
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Amazon to cut about 14000 corporate jobs in AI push
October 28, 2025 - Oct 28 (Reuters) - Amazon (AMZN.O), opens new tab said on Tuesday it will reduce its global corporate workforce by about 14,000 people, with more cuts expected next year, in a major shakeup driven in part by adoption of artificial intelligence ...
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Amazon cuts 14,000 corporate jobs as spending on artificial intelligence accelerates
Amazon will cut about 14,000 corporate jobs as the online retail giant ramps up spending on artificial intelligence while cutting costs elsewhere.
Published October 28, 2025
Forbes
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AI Didn't Layoff 14000 People. Amazon Did.
October 31, 2025 - Amazon cut 14,000 jobs citing AI efficiency, but the real cost isn't on the balance sheet—it's the workplace trust leaders sacrifice for short-term gains.
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September 10, 2025 - Actually makes sense that they’d be looking for replacements before the massive layoff news. ... This plus hire to fire. Meta is hiring through their grueling interviews and team matches just to fire within two weeks to hit attrit numbers. I'm sure some Amazon teams are doing the same.
Fortune
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Amazon's layoffs and leaked AI plans beg the question
3 weeks ago - Amid these concerns over the future of blue-collar workers in Amazon’s warehouses came the news of a major round of layoffs—of white-collar workers. The company cut roughly 14,000 jobs, about 4% of its corporate workforce.
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November 11, 2025 - Amazon’s decision to cut 14,000 jobs this quarter – roughly half the number initially feared – confirms what most boardrooms already know: artificial intelligence isn’t just a productivity tool, it’s a restructuring driver.
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October 28, 2025 - Find the latest news about Amazon, the nation's largest online retailer, from reporter Ángel González and The Seattle Times business staff.
CNBC
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Amazon cut more than 1,800 engineers in record layoffs, despite saying it needs to innovate faster
November 21, 2025 - Nearly 40% of the roughly 4,700 positions Amazon eliminated across Washington, New York, New Jersey and California were engineering jobs.
BBC
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Amazon confirms massive job losses in corporate division
October 28, 2025 - Amazon has confirmed it plans to cut thousands of jobs, saying it needs to be "organised more leanly" to seize the opportunity provided by artificial intelligence (AI).
Fortune
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Everyone thinks AI is replacing factory workers, but ...
October 29, 2025 - Just as news outlets shared leaked Amazon documents suggesting the company could replace half a million warehouse jobs with robots, the e-commerce giant pulled the rug out and laid off 14,000 middle managers instead.
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Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs while sitting on $100 billion in cash.
Is this the new playbook for the AI era that companies are implementing to survive and/or thrive.
Or maybe it's just a way for them to make their balance sheets look pretty for the investors with all the money they've dumped into AI.
Amazon's CEO explained it clearly: "When you add a lot of people, you end up with middle managers who want to put their fingerprint on everything.
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Between stock buy back and layoff, Amazon chooses layoff. Simple.
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If you really want to know why, Behind the Bastards has an episode on how mass layoffs became common in the 80s. Both parts are about 3 hours but it's highly worth your time. I'll give a short answer though, in case you're in a hurry. You're right that it's a way to make balance sheets look good, but you're wrong that it has to do with compensating for their investment in AI. Capitalism's demand for infinite growth and their responsibility to shareholders to produce infinite growth is means that layoffs are no longer done in response to market conditions. You can do layoffs when your company is performing poorly, you can do layoffs when your company is performing decently, and you can do layoffs when your company is already producing record profits, because there is no upper limit and no such thing as "good enough" regarding these balance sheets.
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Amazon layoffs: 14,000 managerial roles to go in restructuring push | Report - The Economic Times
March 20, 2025 - The job cuts are expected to help the company maintain margins while continuing to invest in key business areas. Post-restructuring, Amazon’s managerial workforce is likely to decline to 91,936. Broader restructuring push The decision follows recent layoffs in Amazon’s communications and sustainability teams.
Fast Company
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March 21, 2025 - A bogus statistic about e-commerce giant Amazon laying off thousands of managers spread across news sites and social media this week.