- Amazon confirms major job cuts internally and not in staff
- Up to 14,000 company jobs could be lost
- Divisions of entire Amazon corporate staff could be affected
Amazon has confirmed plans to cut 14,000 jobs in a bid to operate more efficiently.
Beth Galetti, senior vice president of people experience and technology, noted that the cuts would make Amazon “even stronger,” meaning it could shift resources, “to ensure we are investing in our biggest bets and what matters most for our customers’ needs now and in the future.”
Major job cuts at Amazon
The move is reportedly a response to Amazon’s overhiring during the pandemic, when demand for all kinds of products increased, leading to a huge expansion.
“We are convinced that we need to be organized in a simpler way, with fewer layers and more ownership, to act as quickly as possible for our customers and our business,” Galetti added.
Amazon has about 1.55 million employees across the company, but the cuts will affect its 350,000 employees. A report claims that a number of divisions and roles could be affected, including human resources, known as People Experience and Technology (PXT), operations, devices and services; and Amazon Web Services teams should all be affected.
The move will mark Amazon’s largest job cuts ever, ahead of the 27,000 positions cut in 2022 in an apparent bid to save on expenses, and is slightly better than previous reports claiming up to 30,000 workers could be laid off.
The company’s CEO, Andy Jassy, warned earlier in 2025 that the rise of AI technology at large companies like Amazon would likely lead to job cuts.
“We will need fewer people to do some of the work that is being done today, and more people for other types of work,” he said in a memo sent to Amazon staff in June 2025.
“It’s difficult to know exactly where this will translate over time, but over the next few years we expect this to reduce our overall workforce across the company as we achieve efficiencies through the extensive use of AI across the company.”
Jassy added that staff who embrace such changes would be “well-positioned” at the company, noting that Amazon was already using AI agents in “virtually every corner of the company,” adding, “a lot of these agents still need to be built, but make no mistake, they are coming and coming fast.”
The news is the latest in a series of layoffs by tech giants in recent months as they take stock of their workforces in the new AI-driven world.
Meta recently cut 600 jobs in its AI division, with Salesforce confirming it had also lost 4,000 support jobs to AI tools.
About 9,000 Microsoft employees also lost their jobs in July 2025, including about 6,000 also in May and several hundred in other, smaller adjustments.
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