{"id":36592,"date":"2025-11-11T23:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T23:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/36592\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T23:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T23:52:09","slug":"amazons-massive-layoffs-include-nearly-700-terminations-in-nyc-state-department-of-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/36592\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon’s massive layoffs include nearly 700 terminations in NYC: state Department of Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon\u2019s massive October <\/a>layoffs included 660 terminations in Manhattan, according to New York State government records.<\/p>\n

The ax fell on nine office addresses affecting corporate employees only, Amazon confirmed.<\/p>\n

Two sites bore the brunt of the local cuts. The e-commerce giant\u2019s 450 W. 33rd St. offices near Hudson Yards were hit with 233 layoffs, while its 424 Fifth Ave. offices at the former Lord & Taylor flagship \u2014 which Amazon bought <\/a>in 2020 for $1 billion \u2014 saw 182 terminations, according to Monday filings from the state Department of Labor.<\/p>\n

Amazon\u2019s New York Tech Hub is in the former Lord & Taylor flagship on Fifth Avenue. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe the vast majority of these cuts are tech layoffs for Amazon and NYC was not spared,\u201d Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives told The Post. \u201cThe size of the Amazon cuts remains a head scratcher given the battle for talent and [the] AI revolution in motion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amazon declined to share details of the cuts but said warehouse and delivery workers weren\u2019t among those laid off.<\/p>\n

Late last month, the Seattle-based tech titan said it was eliminating 14,000 staffers as part of restructuring. The move was aimed at \u201creducing bureaucracy, removing layers, and shifting resources to ensure we\u2019re investing in our biggest bets,\u201d wrote Beth Galetti, senior VP of people experience in a blog post <\/a>on Oct. 28.<\/p>\n

The company is reportedly planning to slash a total of 30,000 corporate jobs<\/a> in the latest round of cuts \u2013 or about 9% of its global office-based workforce, sources told Reuters.<\/p>\n

Amazon\u2019s job cuts in NYC did not including warehouse or delivery jobs. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n

The layoffs are expected to continue in January, after the holiday shopping season, according to a New York Times report.<\/p>\n

Amazon has slashed tens of thousands of jobs since Andy Jassy took over the helm from the company\u2019s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Amazon typically employs thousands of workers at its locations and none of the nine offices that saw layoffs in New York City is expected to close.<\/p>\n

As of 2023, Amazon employed 2,000 people inside the grand old Lord & Taylor building where the tech company established its \u201cNew York Tech Hub.\u201d The 11-story, Italian Renaissance Revival tower\u00a0boasts a landscaped rooftop with trees, an indoor dining area and even a dog run.<\/p>\n

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has presided over a massive number of job eliminations at the company. Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Amazon\u2019s recent New York City layoffs include 91 jobs at 410 Tenth Ave, 58 positions at 7 W. 34th St., 41 jobs at 330 W. 34th St., 38 jobs at 237 Park Ave., nine jobs at 315 Park Ave. S, seven at 215 Park Ave. S. and one unlucky person at 6 W. 35th St., according to public records.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome may ask why we\u2019re reducing roles when the company is performing well,\u201d Galetti wrote last month. \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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon\u2019s massive October layoffs included 660 terminations in Manhattan, according to New York State government records. The ax…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[586,66,288,21446,21447,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-36592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-amazon","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-layoffs","12":"tag-lord-and-taylor","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nyc-headlines","17":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}