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'Silent sacking': What is it and why is Amazon allegedly using it to cut its workforce
September 19, 2024 - Amazon had since 2022 offered its ... benefits, and job placement. By 'silently sacking' employees, the tech giant will not have to go through the entire process, saving time and resources....
Justin Garrison
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Amazon's Silent Sacking - Justin Garrison
December 30, 2023 - It hasn’t only been happening to my team. This has been happening in multiple areas as Amazon silently sacks people without being required to give them severance or announce layoffs.
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Amazon's silent layoffs 💼, AI learnings in 2023 🤖, GitHub Copilot Chat launches 👨💻
Many teams at Amazon have been in a hiring freeze for over a year and the employees that were left after the layoffs in 2023 are now leaving. The changes in the organization will likely result in a major AWS outage in 2024. There has already been an increase in large-scale events throughout Amazon.
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What is 'silent sacking' and why is Amazon allegedly using it to cut its workforce - TheStreet
January 11, 2024 - An Amazon employee is accusing the company of allegedly dodging negative press associated with layoffs and skipping out on providing severance packages by “silently sacking” its employees to encourage them to leave the company rather than firing them.
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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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Pivot assignment: make Amazon stock price reach $350/share in the middle of 2026 without doing further layoffs (forced or RTO/silent).
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What is ‘silent sacking’ that Amazon allegedly used to cut its workforce?
September 20, 2024 - ... Following that time, Amazon ... they had worked for the company. The company will save time and money by “silently sacking” workers rather than going through the full procedure....
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Ex-AWS techie claims Amazon is 'silent sacking' employees in 5 phases: 'It's a strategic move'
September 18, 2024 - Then followed “silent sacking”. Explaining what he described as phase 4, McBride said, "If you managed to somehow stick around this long, your work life would be made incredibly unsatisfying and cumbersome: you'd be left out of in-person ...
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Amazon's Silent Sacking | Hacker News
October 29, 2023 - Remember game rooms, 20% personal projects, sushi, etc.? Maybe some of that is still there, but it is a product of an attitude of a former time · Now in business and elsewhere there is the tidal wave of a new zeitgeist. Working together; believing in, having compassion for, and doing good ...
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Filing: Amazon cuts 84 jobs in Washington state, unrelated to broader layoffs – GeekWire
2 weeks ago - Amazon filed a new notice with Washington state Monday morning signaling that it’s cutting 84 jobs, but the individual separations are part of the regular course of business, unrelated to the 14,000 corporate layoffs it announced globally ...
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Amazon sharply upped 'performance improvement plans' for workers. Then came tens of thousands of layoffs | Fortune
March 20, 2024 - Some consider these changes in management policy to be an effort to push certain employees out the door without going through costly and morale-lowering layoffs—a practice known as “quiet firing.” If companies can create conditions that ...
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‘Silent sacking’: Amazon eliminated employee from his role but still giving him salary; here’s what happened - BusinessToday
January 2, 2024 - Garrison also mentioned that he was not the only one going through this situation. "This has been happening in multiple areas as Amazon silently sacks people without being required to give them severance or announce layoffs.
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Exclusive: Amazon targets as many as 30,000 corporate job cuts, sources say | Reuters
October 28, 2025 - Some of the employees who are not swiping in daily because they live far from corporate offices, or for other reasons, are being told they have voluntarily quit Amazon and must leave without severance, a savings for the company. Layoffs.fyi, a website tracking tech job cuts, estimated that about 98,000 jobs have been lost so far this year among 216 companies.
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r/Layoffs on Reddit: Amazon Layoffs
September 5, 2023 -
I was laid off yesterday.
My leader said: “This has nothing to do with your performance. This decision was not made lightly.”
Yet its so hard to think it’s not based on my performance. They kept people who had less tenure and experience than me (but paid the same)
I asked 100x over my course of tenure there to give me more exposure, to include me in more meetings, to give me more context. From the start, I felt left out. I was set up to fail and not given the opportunity to grow. They often took credit for the things that I BUILT.
Live and learn I guess.
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I don’t kiss ass either and thought that was the reason for my layoffs but tbh the reasoning could be anything so don’t stress out because it’s over and there’s nothing much you can do. Kiss ass or not, if they don’t want you then they’ll find any reason to get rid of you 😕 Move on and find better/greater things.
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This happened to me - FIVE times since 2020. The prior 20 years i'd never even had a termination scare - protected my tenure and seriously devoted my 20's and 30's to career progression and industry respect. I spent my whole career looking out for future 40 year old me... Covid happened - i literally had no control over companies dying - and it's just me in the world so i had no choice either but to just survive. 5x in 3 years being let go for zero reason and that kind of explanation - juggling enough W2's for the government to be suspicious- no doctor i could depend on because that's 5 insurance policies to cancel and switch and wait to be eligible - 5 new company onboarding events - 5 new ERP systems - 5 new roles i'd never experienced - 5 new cultures to adapt to. Most importantly - five times in my career I felt like an absolute complete failure at life. Turned 40 in september ... and got laid off by government shutdown threats 1 week after turning 40. Not only a miserable worthless 40 year old but also - digesting that my past achievements meant nothing and i can't change anything more except to find opportunity 6! Well ... #6 came to me last month only because a niche skillset i learned at #3 caught a recruiter's eye ... if i didn't have the ERP experience from #4 i wouldn't have been qualified...and it was the CPO at #5 that provided the most stellar reference to set me apart. The job though - is actually a culmination of my first 20 years and it's a dream. However - if it weren't for something so specific that i learned in the 5 rodeos since 2020... I wouldn't have made it either. Wear your skillset and resiliency as a badge of honor... don't give up.
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Is Amazon silently laying off employees? 'Silent sacking is a five-phase plan'| Business News
September 19, 2024 - After this was “silent sacking” which “If you managed to somehow stick around this long, your work life would be made incredibly unsatisfying and cumbersome: you'd be left out of in-person meetings, you'd be stiff-armed by management, you wouldn't be given interesting or meaningful work, etc. And finally, Phase 5: death of remote. Everyone must sit at a desk in a physical office where your team is located”, as per John McBride. Amazon is trying to increase profit margins "now that spending and books across the economy are very tight.
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Amazon Layoffs in Canada: What Employees Should Know About Their Rights and Severance - Monkhouse Law
November 17, 2025 - Public reporting indicates the restructuring is focused on corporate and technology roles as Amazon streamlines operations and increases AI-related investment [Reuters; The Verge]. Some outlets report approximately 14,000 confirmed corporate roles in the first wave, with additional cuts anticipated as the restructuring progresses (AP News). Key point: Even without a Canadian breakdown, it’s important not to assume local operations are exempt. If you receive a layoff notice or severance offer, seek legal advice from an employment lawyer before signing.
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Business Insider
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Senior Amazon Employee Says Company Is 'Quiet Firing' People - Business Insider
January 2, 2024 - After nearly four years at the company, the employee took a $203,000 pay cut by forfeiting unvested stocks solely because of Amazon's RTO policy. "If I was going to surmise, I would think part of it is reducing head count without doing further layoffs, because that signals bad things to shareholders," the manager, who requested to be anonymous, told BI.
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r/cscareerquestions on Reddit: Amazon layoffs - In California, SWEs were the largest category cut
October 31, 2025 -
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/amazon-exec-explains-layoff-california-21129467.php
In California, Amazon filed WARNs, which are generally required in the event of mass job cuts, for seven cities: Sunnyvale (391 layoffs), Irvine (333), Palo Alto (176), Culver City (152), San Diego (145), Santa Monica (130) and Santa Clara (76). It adds up to 1,403 cuts statewide — it’s unclear how the overall cuts might be affecting subsidiaries. (Amazon also owns Audible, Twitch, Goodreads, Whole Foods, Zoox and Ring.)
Who are these laid-off workers? Software development engineers make up the largest category, with hundreds of cuts listed across the documents. Amazon is also shedding recruiters, business analysts, marketers and managers. The layoffs in Irvine and San Diego, where Amazon has video game studios, include dozens of game designers and game artists.
This sheds some light on how affected SWEs were by this layoff in California at least. Not sure about other locations. The total layoff number is 14000
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More to compete against in an already hellish market. YouTube also announced a voluntary separation program which means they are teeing up for layoffs and even more FAANG engineers on the market
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I feel like some SWEs have this notion their positions are safe because of their technical expertise. But leadership doesn’t care how talented some engineers or people in other roles might be, if your org is struggling, you’re in danger of being laid off.
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r/cscareerquestions on Reddit: [BREAKING] Amazon to layoff 30,000 corporate employees in one of the largest layoffs in its history
October 27, 2025 -
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?