Overview
- The reduction affects office and support roles such as HR, advertising and management, not warehouse staff at this stage.
- Media had reported plans for as many as 30,000 office cuts over several months, a total Amazon has not confirmed.
- Initial layoff notifications were expected to begin Oct. 28, with additional rounds reported as likely after the holiday peak in January.
- Most affected employees will have about 90 days to seek internal roles, with specifics varying by local law.
- The move follows roughly 27,000 layoffs in 2022 and comes as Amazon invests heavily in AI and cloud infrastructure.