{"id":32453,"date":"2025-10-31T21:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T21:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/32453\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T21:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T21:00:12","slug":"amazon-cutting-760-corporate-jobs-in-southern-california-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/32453\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon cutting 760 corporate jobs in Southern California \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon, which announced plans this week to reduce its global corporate workforce by about 14,000 jobs<\/a>, says it is laying off 760 jobs in Southern California beginning in January as part of a shakeup driven by artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

Overall, Amazon says it will cut 1,540 positions in California \u2014 including 783 in Northern California<\/a>, according to Vani Appukkutty, a senior manager in the company\u2019s human resources department. In Southern California,\u00a0layoffs are coming to Irvine (333), Culver City (152), San Diego (145) and Santa Monica (130).<\/p>\n

Also see: Disneyland lays off about 100 salaried employees<\/a><\/p>\n

The layoffs begin Jan. 26 and finish\u00a0by April 1, Appukkutty wrote in Oct. 28 letters filed with the state\u2019s Employment Development Department.<\/p>\n

\u201cEmployee separations resulting from this action are expected to be permanent,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

The filings were made as part of the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act \u2014 commonly referred to as WARN \u2014 which are required when an employer lays off more than 50 employees. All affected employees are notified at least 60 days before their terminations are scheduled to occur, according to Appukkutty.<\/p>\n

The layoffs include positions for business intelligence, data, software and security engineers, contract managers, creative marketers, financial analysts, game artists and designers, lawyers, product managers, tax analysts and other administrative staff, according to the EDD letters.<\/p>\n

More job cuts: Santa Monica-based RAND cuts 11% of its workforce<\/a><\/p>\n

Appukkutty did not provide reasons for the layoffs or where in the tech giant the reductions would happen. However, news reports said that Amazon.com was gutting its video-game division<\/a> in Irvine, San Diego and its central publishing division. The retailer also announced Oct. 3 that it would close four of its Amazon Fresh supermarkets<\/a> in Southern California by mid-November as it reevaluates store performance.<\/p>\n

Beth Galetti, senior vice president in charge of Amazon\u2019s human resources department, wrote in an Oct. 28 blog post<\/a> that artificial intelligence is enabling companies to \u201cinnovate much faster than ever before.\u201d<\/p>\n

In announcing the 14,000 corporate layoffs, Galetti wrote that Amazon is convinced of the \u201cneed to be organized more leanly, with fewer layers and more ownership, to move as quickly as possible for our customers and business.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said that the reductions are a continuation of the work to get even \u201cstronger by further reducing bureaucracy, removing layers, and shifting resources\u201d to invest in Amazon\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

The corporate layoffs mean \u201creducing in some areas and hiring in others,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

For instance, Amazon announced in early October that it planned to fill 30,000 new seasonal roles across California, including up to 8,000 roles in Riverside, San Bernardino and Ontario \u2014 as well as up to 3,000 roles for the upcoming holidays across Los Angeles, Long Beach and Anaheim, and 1,300 roles in San Diego, Chula Vista and Carlsbad.<\/p>\n

Many of the seasonal roles have the potential to transition into year-round employment with benefits, said Amazon spokeswoman Carly Levy in an Oct. 14 statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon, which announced plans this week to reduce its global corporate workforce by about 14,000 jobs, says it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8487,387,7,9,8,383,2462,1286,137,611,84,8267,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-32453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-amazon","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-california-headlines","12":"tag-california-news","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-irvine","15":"tag-jobs","16":"tag-los-angeles-county","17":"tag-orange-county","18":"tag-san-diego-county","19":"tag-santa-monica","20":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}