Amazon to cut thousands more jobs in efforts to streamline bureaucracy

By Spencer Soper and Matt Day

 

Amazon.com Inc is gearing up to ax thousands more corporate employees, ratcheting up efforts to streamline bureaucracy. 

The company plans to start rolling out the terminations as early as next week, according to people briefed on the situation.

 

The layoffs arrive a few months after the company announced it was excising 14,000 roles. At the time, Amazon signaled that more cuts could come in 2026 as it found “additional places we can remove layers.” Managers were given a choice to make cuts in October or wait until the new year, said the people, who requested anonymity to discuss an internal matter. 

 

 

The cuts, conducted in rounds on either side of Amazon’s busy holiday quarter, echo layoffs the Seattle-based company instituted in late 2022 and early 2023 that ultimately snared about 27,000 people.

 

Reuters reported the latest terminations earlier on Thursday. An Amazon spokesperson declined to comment. 

 

While the company employed a total of about 1.57 million people as of Sept. 30, most of them work in warehouses. The layoffs affect the corporate workforce, which comprises approximately 350,000 personnel.