Amazon is planning a new round of corporate job cuts next week as it moves to eliminate approximately 30,000 white-collar roles, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the development.
According to sources, the company’s retail operations are expected to be among the areas affected, alongside Amazon Web Services (AWS), Prime Video and the People Experience and Technology human resources unit.
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They added that the final number of roles and precise teams involved had not yet been fully determined and could still shift.
In October 2025, the company eliminated 14,000 corporate positions, approximately half of the total reduction it is targeting.
The upcoming wave of cuts is anticipated to be of a similar size to last year’s round and could start as soon as Tuesday, 27 January, according to the report.
If completed as outlined, the 30,000 job losses would represent close to 10% of Amazon’s corporate headcount, but only a small fraction of its overall global workforce of 1.58 million employees.
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When Amazon announced the October layoffs, it linked the restructuring to rapid advances in AI tools.
In an internal communication at the time, it said that “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”.
Later, on Amazon’s third-quarter earnings call, chief executive Andy Jassy played down the role of cost-cutting and AI in the decision.
The cuts were “not really financially driven, and it’s not even really AI-driven,” he told analysts.
Last year, he had indicated that he anticipated the corporate workforce would contract over time as the company adopted more efficient processes, including the use of AI.
