Overview
- On Thursday’s earnings call, Jassy framed the cuts as a push to flatten management and restore frontline ownership, with roughly 14,000 roles equal to about 4% of Amazon’s corporate and tech staff.
- Amazon posted a strong quarter with $180.2 billion in revenue, up 13% year over year, and AWS up 20%, underscoring that the reductions were not prompted by weak financials.
- Most affected employees receive a 90‑day paid window to seek internal roles, with severance, outplacement services and health benefits offered if they exit.
- California WARN filings list 1,403 corporate roles cut across cities including Sunnyvale, Irvine, Palo Alto, Culver City, San Diego, Santa Monica and Santa Clara, while reports in India cite 800–1,000 corporate roles affected.
- Workers described pre-dawn texts instructing them to check email for status, and while executive memos have tied AI to longer-term staffing changes, reports of larger future cuts remain unconfirmed.