Amazon chopping hundreds of company roles

Update: Amazon has confirmed plans to make roughly 14,000 individuals redundant inside its company workforce, together with workers inside its online game division. 

Beth Galetti, SVP of individuals expertise and expertise at Amazon, confirmed the information in a message to workers (later posted on the Amazon website). 

She defined the tech, media, and retail colossus is making cuts with the goal of working just like the “world’s largest startup” and eliminating paperwork.

“The reductions we’re sharing today are a continuation of this work to get even stronger by further reducing bureaucracy, removing layers, and shifting resources to ensure we’re investing in our biggest bets and what matters most to our customers’ current and future needs,” she wrote.

“We’re working hard to support everyone whose role is impacted, including offering most employees 90 days to look for a new role internally (the timing will vary some based on local laws), and our recruiting teams will prioritize internal candidates to help as many people as possible find new roles within Amazon.”

Galetti additionally espoused the advantages of AI in her message to workers, and claimed the oft-criticized expertise is already permitting firms like Amazon to “innovate much faster than ever before.” She steered it is vital for the corporate to cut back its headcount with a purpose to benefit from the perceived alternative offered by the tech.

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“Some may ask why we’re reducing roles when the company is performing well. Across our businesses, we’re delivering great customer experiences every day, innovating at a rapid rate, and producing strong business results,” she continued.

“What we need to remember is that the world is changing quickly. 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 (in existing market segments and altogether new ones). We’re convinced that we need to be organized more leanly, with fewer layers and more ownership, to move as quickly as possible for our customers and business.”

It’s at present unclear which online game studios—and what number of recreation employees, particularly—have been impacted, however particular person testimonies shared on-line point out the division has been focused by Amazon.

Original story: Amazon intends to chop hundreds of company roles throughout key departments resembling logistics, funds, cloud computing, and video games. 

That’s in keeping with reviews from each Bloomberg and Reuters, which declare the layoffs might be introduced this week and influence as much as 30,000 individuals. 

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Sources acquainted with the scenario informed Reuters that Amazon will jettison swathes of employees to compensate for overhiring through the COVID-19 pandemic. The whole variety of redundancies will influence round 10 % of the corporate’s 350,000 particular person company workforce. Amazon at present has round 1.55 million workers globally. 

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who was appointed in November 2021 and has labored on the firm for many years, beforehand informed workers that generative AI instruments and brokers will probably be used to interchange human employees within the coming years.

In a memo to workers revealed in June 2025 (thanks again, Reuters), Jassy stated the expertise will change how Amazon works—ensuing within the want for “fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs.” 

“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,” he added within the memo.

Amazon declined to remark when approached by Bloomberg and Reuters.