Amazon is cutting 16,000 corporate jobs in a second round of mass layoffs, which the company announced back in October 2025.
The e-commerce site says that it is offering US-based employees 90 days to look for a new role internally. And teammates who aren’t able to find a role at Amazon or choose not to look for one, the company is providing transition support include severance, outplacement services, health insurance benefits and more.
Additionally, Amazon says that they’re still hiring and investing in different areas that are critical to the company’s future.
Further, the post says that Amazon isn’t planning on announcing broad reductions every few months. “That’s not our plan. But just as we always have, every team will continue to evaluate the ownership, speed, and capacity to invent for customers, and make adjustments as appropriate.”
Amazon said that they shared these details with employees earlier on Wednesday, 28.
In October, the company cut 14,000 jobs, but employees had warned that there could be another round of slashes, reaching up to 30K job cuts. I guess those other employees were right. During this time, Amazon said it will replace some of these roles with AI.
“This generation of AI is the most transformative technology we’ve seen since the Internet, and it’s enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before (in existing market segments and altogether new ones). We’re convinced that we need to be organized more leanly, with fewer layers and more ownership, to move as quickly as possible for our customers and business.”
Amazon also laid off 27,000 people in January and February of 2022.
Source: Amazon
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