Amazon will eliminate about 14,000 corporate jobs globally to streamline management, reduce costs and redirect spending into artificial intelligence, confirming the company’s largest white-collar reduction since 2022–23.

The move follows reports that as many as 30,000 corporate roles were under review; an internal plan now targets roughly 14,000 positions. Warehouse and logistics staff are not expected to be affected.

Focus on corporate workforce and efficiency

The layoffs apply to Amazon’s corporate workforce of about 350,000 employees out of more than 1.5 million globally.

Beth Galetti, Amazon’s senior vice-president for People Experience and Technology, told staff that teams will shed layers of management and “operate more nimbly,” with most affected employees receiving a 90-day window to seek internal transfers before severance and other support are offered.

AI strategy drives corporate job cuts

Chief executive Andy Jassy has said generative ai and ai agents will automate routine tasks and make some office roles redundant over time, while creating new jobs in priority areas.

He flagged in June that the corporate headcount would likely shrink as the company scaled ai across its operations.

Today’s reduction aligns with that strategy and with ongoing investments in ai infrastructure and services.

Scale of layoffs and recent history

The confirmed 14,000 corporate job cuts are Amazon’s biggest white-collar downsizing since late 2022 and early 2023, when the company eliminated around 27,000 roles in several rounds.

Initial media reports based on unnamed sources suggested up to 30,000 corporate positions could go, which would have affected nearly a tenth of office staff; the company’s current plan specifies about 14,000.