Overview
- The reduction would equal about 10% of roughly 350,000 corporate employees, a small share of Amazon’s 1.55 million total workforce.
- Email notifications were scheduled to begin Tuesday morning after affected managers received training on Monday.
- Roles expected to be affected include Human Resources (People Experience and Technology), Devices and Services, and Operations.
- Amazon declined to comment on the reports, and its shares rose about 1.3% to 1.5% ahead of Thursday’s third‑quarter earnings release.
- If implemented, this would be the company’s largest single job cut since it eliminated about 27,000 positions in late 2022.