Reuters reports Amazon plans to cut as many as 30,000 corporate roles, nearly 10 percent of its corporate workforce, with managers briefed on Monday and staff notifications set to begin on Tuesday morning.
Amazon is preparing to cut as many as 30,000 corporate roles starting this week, Reuters has reported, citing people familiar with the plan. The cuts would represent nearly 10 percent of the company's roughly 350,000 corporate employees, while amounting to a small fraction of its total workforce of about 1.55 million. Managers of affected teams underwent training on Monday to prepare for staff notifications set to go out beginning on Tuesday morning.
The reductions are expected to reach several divisions, including human resources, known inside the company as People Experience and Technology, as well as operations, devices and services, and Amazon Web Services. Fortune earlier reported that the human resources division alone could face cuts of up to 15 percent, though the full scope of the reductions remains unclear and could change as Amazon's plans develop.
Chief executive Andy Jassy has been working to reduce what he has described as an excess of bureaucracy, including by cutting layers of management. Earlier this year he said the company's growing use of artificial intelligence tools could lead to further job reductions, particularly through the automation of routine tasks. The move follows earlier rounds of cuts, including more than 18,000 roles in January 2023 and a further 9,000 announced three months later, as Amazon unwound hiring from the pandemic years.
The central figures in this story come from Reuters reporting based on unnamed people familiar with the plan, and a second outlet's summary of the same reporting matches those figures. Amazon has not publicly confirmed the plan in the reporting reviewed for this story, and one outlet said it had sought comment from the company. The 30,000 figure, the divisional spread and the notification timetable should therefore be read as a reported plan rather than a company-confirmed total, and the final number may shift.
If the cuts reach 30,000, they would be the largest in Amazon's history, surpassing the roughly 27,000 jobs eliminated across late 2022 and early 2023. The next test of the reporting will be the notifications themselves on Tuesday morning and whether Amazon issues a statement confirming the scale, the divisions affected, and what support departing staff will receive.