People use a common space at the Amazon headquarters in Seattle. (David Ryder/Getty Images)
October 27, 2025 3:25 PM, EDT
| Updated: October 27, 2025 3:41 PM, EDT
Key Takeaways:
- Amazon plans to cut 30,000 corporate jobs starting Oct. 28, Reuters reported, marking its largest reduction since pandemic-era layoffs.
- The cuts follow CEO Andy Jassy’s June comments that artificial intelligence will shrink the company’s workforce by automating some roles and shifting others.
- Amazon has not commented on the reported layoffs, which come as some employees are being required to relocate to major hubs such as Seattle and Arlington, Va.
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Amazon.com Inc. plans to cut 30,000 corporate jobs, according to Reuters, the latest in a series of layoffs the company has conducted in the past few years.
The terminations are expected to start Oct. 28, Reuters reported, citing sources.
The company instituted rolling reductions in late 2022 and early 2023 that ultimately totaled more than 27,000 corporate employees, as CEO Andy Jassy looked to cut costs after expanding rapidly during the pandemic. Since then, there’s been a steady drip of more modest cuts to individual teams.
Amazon didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Jassy in June signaled that Amazon’s workforce would likely get smaller as the company increases its use of artificial intelligence to complete tasks normally handled by people. The comment touched off panic among workers, who trawled anonymous online chat rooms for insights about potential job cuts that often leak piecemeal, making it difficult to assess their full size and scope.
“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 then in a memo to employees. “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.”
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The company also ordered some corporate employees to move closer to their managers and teams, Bloomberg reported earlier this year. Workers were told to relocate to such cities as Seattle; Arlington, Va.; and Washington D.C., which in some cases would require them to move across the country, according to people familiar with the situation.
Amazon employed a total of about 1.55 million people as of June 30.
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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