Amazon Targets as Many as 30,000 Corporate Job Cuts in Largest Workforce Reduction

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E-commerce giant prepares to notify employees on Tuesday as AI automation drives restructuring across key departments.

Amazon is preparing to announce sweeping job cuts beginning Tuesday that could affect as many as 30,000 corporate employees. If true, this would be the largest workforce reduction in the company's history (according to multiple reports).

The layoffs would eliminate nearly 10% of Amazon's approximately 350,000 corporate workforce. The wave is expected to impact several key departments, including human resources, logistics, payments, video games, and Amazon Web Services.

Employees are scheduled to receive notification via email starting Tuesday morning, and could only assume that the Amazon worker is on pins and needles in anticipation of the cuts.

The move represents the most significant job reduction at Amazon since the company eliminated more than 27,000 corporate positions in rolling layoffs during late 2022 and early 2023. At that time, CEO Andy Jassy said that the cuts were because of a worsening global economic outlook following rapid pandemic-era expansion.

Amazon declined to comment on the reported layoffs when contacted by multiple news outlets.

AI Automation Driving Workforce Changes

The anticipated cuts come months after Jassy signaled that artificial intelligence would fundamentally reshape Amazon's workforce composition. In a June memo to employees, Jassy outlined how AI adoption would reduce staffing needs across the company.

"We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs," Jassy wrote. "It's hard to know exactly where this nets out over time, but in the next few years, we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company."

The cost-cutting initiative aligns with Amazon's massive investments in artificial intelligence infrastructure. The company announced earlier this year that it expects to increase capital expenditures to more than $100 billion in 2025, up from $83 billion in 2024, with the majority directed toward building out AI capacity for Amazon Web Services.

Amazon's Growing Footprint

Despite the planned corporate cuts, Amazon reported 1.54 million total employees as of June 30, representing a 3% year-over-year increase. The company's corporate workforce numbered around 350,000 in early 2023, according to a survey filed with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2024.

The job cuts follow a pattern of smaller, targeted reductions at Amazon throughout 2025. In January, the company reduced positions in its Communications and Sustainability departments, while layoffs have also affected the cloud, stores, and devices divisions in recent months.