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, according to three people familiar with the matter.

The figure represents a small percentage of Amazon’s 1.55 million total employees, but nearly 10% of the company’s roughly 350,000 corporate employees. This would represent the largest job cut at Amazon since around 27,000 jobs were eliminated starting in late 2022.

Managers of impacted teams were asked to undergo training on Monday for how to communicate with staff following notifications that will start going out via email tomorrow morning

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/amazon-targets-many-30000-corporate-job-cuts-sources-say-2025-10-27/

What are your thoughts on this?

EDIT: official source, 14k https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-workforce-reduction

https://x.com/deitaone/status/1982880666803962240?s=46

Amazon plans to lay off up to 30,000 corporate employees starting Tuesday to reduce costs and address pandemic overhiring, sources say. The cuts affect nearly 10% of its 350,000 corporate staff, marking Amazon’s largest round of layoffs since 2022.

Edit: Reuters also posting it https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/amazon-targets-many-30000-corporate-job-cuts-sources-say-2025-10-27/

Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-27/amazon-plans-to-cut-30-000-corporate-jobs-reuters-reports

Edit2: CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/27/amazon-to-announce-sweeping-corporate-job-cuts-starting-tuesday.html

updated 10/28- 14,000 employees laid off.

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, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The figure represents a small percentage of Amazon’s 1.55 million total employees, but nearly 10% of the company’s roughly 350,000 corporate employees. This would represent the largest job cut at Amazon since around 27,000 jobs were eliminated starting in late 2022.

An IT veteran here who has lived through my share of corporate transformations and layoffs reflecting on the BIG announcement from Amazon coming just before the holidays:

• The number (30,000) by itself is sizable; but there is going to be a lot more voluntary and involuntary RIFs that follow. Those may not be included in this 30K number.

  • For example, Amazon in India may not 'layoff' people but ask them to resign (with a severance benefit). Such RIF (cloaked as 'resignation') is not reported as a layoff.

• Amazon is just a canary in the coalmine. Other FAANG and IT services companies are following with their own RIFs - some making headlines others not

• Analysts are pointing at reasons like AI and Automation. While there is some of it, the real reason is global slowdown.

  • Just look at US, the largest market where Federal government shutdown is going to hit fed-workers paychecks and foodstamps too.

  • Consumers who don't have a job can't buy stuff - offline or on Amazon

• Offshoring and H1 - this is a big elephant in the room. Amazon has approximately 110,000 permanent employees in India across its corporate and fulfilment centres.

  • One can assume 20-25% of such "corporate employees," especially in IT and Business Services are in India

  • The Yin-Yang that Trump did with H1-B announcement hasn't helped matters. As of June 2025, Amazon had approximately 10,044 employees on H-1B visas, making it the largest sponsor of this visa category in the United States. Can these H1 jobs be offshored by laying off locally and hiring in India?

So Amazon just decided to yeet 30,000 corporate workers into the sun
Not warehouse folks Not seasonal hires The people who actually run the machine

And the market’s reaction
“Yessss daddy Bezos cut more costs please”
Stock goes up because apparently job losses = line go up

Here’s what’s wild
Everyone keeps saying AI is overhyped
Meanwhile Amazon is basically saying
“We don’t need humans for this anymore”

AWS slowing
Retail margins razor thin
Robots and LLMs taking the PowerPoint warriors’ jobs

Imagine being told for years
“Get a tech job it’s safe”
Then boom AI says
“You’re not even middle management material”

This feels less like cost optimization
and more like a warning shot for white-collar workers everywhere

I’m holding AMZN because tendies
but damn
Something about this doesn’t feel bullish for society

Thoughts
Is this the new normal

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/27/amazon-targets-as-many-as-30000-corporate-job-cuts.html

As a real estate agent this is brutal for those selling houses as it will reduce demand.

For those gainfully employed, start planning if you want to buy a house in spring 2026.

Amazon just confirmed plans to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs starting this week one of its biggest layoffs in years.

According to Reuters, it’s about “right-sizing” after pandemic over-hiring.

But here’s what that means in plain English: •People who helped the company grow during lockdowns are being told they’re “redundant.”

•AI and automation are doing more work, and corporate “efficiency” now means fewer humans on payroll.
•While those white-collar jobs disappear, Amazon’s also hiring 250,000 seasonal warehouse workers at a fraction of the pay and benefits.

This isn’t just an Amazon story. It’s the blueprint for corporate America right now: •Cut the stable jobs, keep the temp ones. •Replace middle-class wages with short-term contracts. •Call it “innovation” or “optimization,” and investors cheer.

30,000 may sound like a number but that’s rent, groceries, and health insurance for 30,000 families.

If you’ve been through a layoff like this, what did it teach you? And if you’re still in the system… how are you protecting yourself when the next “efficiency plan” rolls out.

This directive goes beyond simple logistics to represent Amazon's overarching strategic goal of preserving its competitive advantage in a market that is extremely dynamic. Being physically close encourages impromptu conversations, speedier decision-making, and a greater sense of purpose, elements that are challenging to replicate virtually. With decades of operational experience, Amazon's leadership understands that real-time idea collisions foster innovation.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/amazon-cut-thousands-of-engineers-in-its-record-layoffs-filings-show.html

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