Amazon’s layoffs arrive a few months after the company announced it was excising 14,000 roles. (Lionel Ng/Bloomberg)
January 23, 2026 7:00 AM, EST
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Amazon.com Inc. is gearing up to ax thousands more corporate employees, ratcheting up efforts to streamline bureaucracy.
The company plans to start rolling out the terminations as early as next week, according to people briefed on the situation.
The layoffs arrive a few months after the company announced it was excising 14,000 roles. At the time, Amazon signaled that more cuts could come in 2026 as it found “additional places we can remove layers.” Managers were given a choice to make cuts in October or wait until the new year, said the people, who requested anonymity to discuss an internal matter.
The cuts, conducted in rounds on either side of Amazon’s busy holiday quarter, echo layoffs the Seattle-based company instituted in late 2022 and early 2023 that ultimately snared about 27,000 people.
Reuters reported the latest terminations earlier Jan. 22. An Amazon spokesperson declined to comment.
While the company employed a total of about 1.57 million people as of Sept. 30, most of them work in warehouses. The layoffs affect the corporate workforce, which comprises approximately 350,000 personnel.
Amazon ranks No. 1 on the Transport Topics Top 100 list of the largest logistics companies in North America, No. 15 on the TT Top 100 list of the largest private carriers and No. 1 on the TT Top 50 list of the largest global freight companies.
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