Amazon has denied media reports claiming around 14,000 more employees would be fired in May. This comes after a recent report that went viral claimed that after laying off 16,000 employees in January, the company is going for another round of mass layoffs which will see 14,000 of its employees losing their jobs. It was first reported on the job forum Blind and then taken up by Lei Feng, a Chinese-language tech portal.
“These reports are false and not based in fact,” Amazon said.
The post on Blind said this information was from an insider who said that these job cuts will come with a “lot of restructuring”, and that information about the same is being closely guarded by the company. The report also said that as part of this layoff, select teams in China may be shut down completely.
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The company’s CEO, Andy Jassy, had claimed back in June 2025 in a memo to staff that with AI getting integrated across the company’s functioning, Amazon “will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today”.
Amazon had already cut roughly 30,000 since October 2025, and signaled that more reductions could still be ahead. These cuts amounted to nearly 10 percent of its corporate staff and marked the largest workforce reduction in the company’s three-decade history.
Amazon, which is an investor in AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, is reportedly planning to spend over $125 billion in data centres. Previously Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has stated that generative AI and AI agents could reduce the need for certain roles in the company.
Amazon is not the only tech company that has recently conducted mass layoffs. Oracle recently conducted sweeping layoffs, which have reportedly impacted around 30,000 employees globally, including nearly 12,000 in India. These layoffs, which were conducted as part of a broader restructuring driven by aggressive investments in artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure, have been described as “abrupt and unsettling.”
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Many employees reported receiving termination emails early in the morning, with immediate loss of system access.
Microsoft, TCS, and Accenture have also laid off thousands recently. According to a Reuters report, Sony is also set to lay off a few hundred of its employees. However, the report also revealed these layoffs are not part of the company’s cost-cutting plans, and are instead targeted and strategic.