Amazon is preparing for another round of corporate layoffs as early as next week, according to two people familiar with the company’s plans, as the tech giant continues a sweeping effort to slim down its white-collar workforce.
The cuts are expected to be comparable in size to last year’s reductions, when Amazon eliminated about 14,000 corporate roles. That move accounted for roughly half of the company’s broader goal to cut around 30,000 corporate jobs overall. This new round could begin as soon as Tuesday, the sources said, as per Reuters.
The people spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss internal decisions. Amazon has not publicly commented on the timing or scope of the planned layoffs, which come as the company continues to rein in costs after years of rapid expansion.
The planned cuts are expected to hit multiple parts of the company, including Amazon Web Services, its core retail operations, Prime Video and the human resources division, known internally as People Experience and Technology, the people said.
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They cautioned that the full scope of the layoffs is still taking shape and that plans could shift before any final decisions are announced.
Amazon previously linked its October 2025 round of layoffs to the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, with the Seattle-based company telling employees in an internal letter that “this generation of AI is the most transformative technology we’ve seen since the Internet, and it’s enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before.”
But CEO Andy Jassy later struck a different note in comments to Wall Street. Speaking during Amazon’s third-quarter earnings call, Jassy said the cuts were “not really financially driven and it’s not even really AI-driven.” Instead, he pointed to deeper cultural issues inside the company.
“It’s culture,” Jassy said, arguing that years of expansion had added too much bureaucracy. “You end up with a lot more people than what you had before, and you end up with a lot more layers,” he told.
Jassy has also been laying the groundwork for these changes for months. Earlier in 2025, he said he expected Amazon’s corporate headcount to steadily decline over time as the company finds more efficiencies through the use of artificial intelligence.
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Across corporate America, companies are leaning more heavily on AI to write software code and deploy AI agents that handle routine, repetitive work, part of a broader push to rein in costs and reduce dependence on human labor. Amazon has been especially vocal on this front, showcasing its latest AI models at its annual AWS cloud computing conference in December.
Even so, cutting 30,000 corporate roles would make up only a small slice of Amazon’s total workforce of about 1.58 million employees. The impact is far more pronounced inside the company’s corporate ranks, where those cuts would amount to nearly 10% of staff. Most Amazon workers are employed in fulfillment centers and warehouses.
If carried through, the cuts would mark the largest round of layoffs in Amazon’s roughly 30-year history. The company last carried out sweeping job reductions in 2022, when it eliminated about 27,000 roles.
Employees impacted in the October round were told they would stay on Amazon’s payroll for 90 days, giving them time to apply for internal roles or look for work elsewhere. That transition period is set to end on Monday, as per the Reuters exclusive report.