Overview

• Speaking at Amazon’s third‑party seller conference in Seattle, Andy Jassy said the company is stripping red tape to speed innovation.
• He said a “no bureaucracy” email alias drew about 1,500 employee reports, prompting roughly 455 process changes in the past year.
• The culture reset builds on a five‑day in‑office requirement and a mandate to lift worker‑to‑manager ratios by at least 15% by early 2025.
• Since 2022, Amazon has cut more than 27,000 jobs and scaled back unprofitable initiatives as leadership pushes teams to do more with less.
• Jassy has told employees in an internal memo that broader use of AI tools will reduce parts of the corporate workforce over the next few years.