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Amazon Orders Corporate Staff to Relocate to Seattle, Arlington or Washington, D.C. or Resign

Employees must decide within 30 days to relocate or forfeit their roles without severance, with Amazon seeking tighter team alignment ahead of AI-driven workforce reductions.

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Overview

  • Those who opt to move will be given a further 60 days to complete their relocation.
  • Employees who decline relocation will have to resign without severance or redundancy pay.
  • Thousands of corporate staff across multiple departments are affected, with some facing cross-country moves to major hubs that complicate family and spousal career commitments.
  • Amazon frames the policy as a means to co-locate teams, improve operational efficiency and align with its business roadmap.
  • CEO Andy Jassy has warned that generative AI adoption will streamline operations and potentially reduce headcount over the next few years.