Amazon.com Inc. is planning a second round of layoffs next week to cut 30,000 corporate jobs, ratcheting up efforts to streamline bureaucracy. The company, which is the United States’ second largest employer after rival Walmart Inc., plans to start rolling out the terminations as early as next week, Reuters and Bloomberg reported, citing people aware of the matter. Jobs in Amazon Web Services and Prime Video, and Retail and HR are seen as most affected.
To be sure, the full scope of the Amazon layoffs is still unclear. The plans can still change, the people cited earlier said.
The Amazon layoffs arrive a few months after the company announced it was cutting 14,000 roles. At the time, it signaled that more cuts could come in 2026 as it found “additional places we can remove layers”. Managers were given a choice to make cuts in October or wait until the new year, sources said.
The cuts, conducted in rounds on either side of Amazon’s busy holiday quarter, echo layoffs the Seattle-based company instituted in late 2022 and early 2023 that ultimately snared about 27,000 people.
An Amazon spokesperson declined to comment.
