{"id":432963,"date":"2026-01-23T20:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/432963\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T20:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:41:08","slug":"exclusive-amazon-plans-thousands-more-corporate-job-cuts-next-week-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/432963\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Amazon plans thousands more corporate job cuts next week, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon’s job cuts to affect AWS, retail, HR unitsCEO Jassy attributes cuts to company culture, not financial or AI reasonsLayoffs represent nearly 10% of Amazon’s corporate workforceSAN FRANCISCO, Jan 22 (Reuters) – Amazon (AMZN.O), opens new tab<\/a> is planning a second round of job cuts next week as part of its broader goal of trimming some 30,000 corporate workers, according to two people familiar with the matter.The company in October cut some 14,000 white-collar jobs, about half of the 30,000 target first reported by Reuters<\/a>. The total this time is expected to be roughly the same as last year and could begin as soon as Tuesday, the people said, who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to discuss Amazon\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n

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An Amazon spokesperson declined to comment.<\/p>\n

Jobs in the company’s Amazon Web Services, retail, Prime Video and human resources, known as People Experience and Technology, units are slated to be affected, the people said, though the full scope was unclear. The people cautioned that the details of Amazon’s plans could change.<\/p>\n

PREVIOUS CUTS TIED TO AIThe Seattle online retailer tied the October round of job cuts<\/a> to the rise of artificial intelligence software, saying in an internal letter that \u201cthis generation of AI is the most transformative technology we\u2019ve seen since the Internet, and it\u2019s enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before.\u201d<\/p>\n

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However, CEO Andy Jassy later told analysts during the company\u2019s third-quarter earnings call that the reduction was \u201cnot really financially driven and it\u2019s not even really AI-driven.\u201d Rather, he said, \u201cit\u2019s culture,” meaning the company has too much bureaucracy.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou end up with a lot more people than what you had before, and you end up with a lot more layers,” he said.<\/p>\n

Jassy had said earlier in 2025 that he expected Amazon\u2019s corporate workforce to shrink<\/a> over time as a result of efficiencies gained from the use of AI.<\/p>\n

Corporations are increasingly using AI to write code for their software and adopting AI agents that automate routine tasks, as they look to save costs and cut reliance on people. Amazon touted its latest AI models during its annual AWS cloud computing conference in December.<\/p>\n

The full 30,000 jobs would represent a small portion of Amazon\u2019s 1.58 million employees, but nearly 10% of the firm\u2019s corporate workforce. The majority of Amazon\u2019s workers are in fulfillment centers and warehouses.<\/p>\n

It would be the largest layoff in Amazon\u2019s three-decade history. The company trimmed about 27,000 jobs in 2022.<\/p>\n

Affected workers in October were told they would remain on the payroll for 90 days, during which time they could apply for jobs internally or seek other employment. That period expires on Monday.<\/p>\n

Reporting by Greg Bensinger; Editing by David Gregorio, Rod Nickel<\/p>\n

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Greg Bensinger joined Reuters as a technology correspondent in 2022 focusing on the world’s largest technology companies. He was previously a member of The New York Times editorial board and a technology beat reporter for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. He also worked for Bloomberg News writing about the auto and telecommunications industries. He studied English literature at The University of Virginia and graduate journalism at Columbia University. Greg lives in San Francisco with his wife and two children. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon’s job cuts to affect AWS, retail, HR unitsCEO Jassy attributes cuts to company culture, not financial or…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,204275,203645,254,255,64,63,226473,204785,206273,214039,210336,204802,204799,206348,212165,226475,210337,204798,207203,206346,210335,204429,204788,213848,4693,226471,23020,226472,204265,204793,203664,212163,226474,206350,204789,204790,28488,204801,214044,226469,226470,14622,206852,213850,212255,1996,105,17575,2489],"class_list":["post-432963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-amers","tag-anlins","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cloudc","tag-cmpny","tag-cycs","tag-dept","tag-destef-business-world-at-work","tag-destlita","tag-destocabsm","tag-destocatpm","tag-destocor","tag-destoemp","tag-destolgrb","tag-destousbsm","tag-destoustcm","tag-destoustpm","tag-efbusiness-world-at-work","tag-erep","tag-exclsv","tag-itse","tag-job","tag-layofs","tag-legal","tag-mailod","tag-mtpix","tag-namer","tag-news1","tag-nrlinocor","tag-nrlpaoemp","tag-packageus-top-news","tag-privt","tag-publ","tag-ret","tag-reuters-legal","tag-rgen","tag-rulesmagnificent-seven","tag-rulesmarkets-amazon","tag-shop","tag-shopal","tag-sofw","tag-swit","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-tmt","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}