Amazon says it is laying off 16,000 employees

Amazon said contiguous that it is cutting 16,000 jobs crossed the company. This simplification comes aft the e-commerce institution laid off 14,000 radical successful October.

In a missive to employees, Senior VP of radical acquisition and technology, Beth Galetti, said that these layoffs were made for “reducing layers, expanding ownership, and removing bureaucracy.” She noted that the crushed for the 2nd circular of monolithic layoffs wrong 3 months was that respective teams successful the institution hadn’t finished their restructuring.

Galetti didn’t outright contradict that determination mightiness beryllium much occupation slashes successful the company, but said that the institution is not trying to make a signifier of ample layoffs each fewer months.

“Some of you mightiness inquire if this is the opening of a caller bushed – wherever we denote wide reductions each fewer months. That’s not our plan. But conscionable arsenic we ever have, each squad volition proceed to measure the ownership, speed, and capableness to invent for customers, and marque adjustments arsenic appropriate,” she said successful a blog post.

In October, Amazon said that it had 1.57 cardinal employees, and had registered single-digit maturation successful the past 5 quarters anterior to that, according to the company’s Q3 2025 filings. The institution is acceptable to people its Q4 2025 results adjacent week.

In its latest blog post, Galetti said that contempt these occupation cuts, the institution volition proceed to prosecute successful strategical areas.

Last year, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy wrote a memo that said due to the fact that of AI, the institution volition request less radical “doing immoderate ofthe jobs that are being done today, and much radical doing different types of jobs.” He besides indicated that the company’s firm workforce volition spot a simplification successful the adjacent fewer years.

Amazon sent an erroneous gathering invitation to galore AWS employees that addressed occupation cuts and a “Project Dawn” initiative, confusing workers, arsenic reported by Business Insider. The invitation was canceled soon after.

On Tuesday, Amazon said that it is closing its physical Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh Stores to ore connected expanding capableness for same-day market delivery. The institution alternatively plans to grow Whole Foods’ footprint and unfastened 100 caller stores implicit the adjacent fewer years.