(Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc. is gearing up to ax thousands more corporate employees, ratcheting up efforts to streamline bureaucracy.
The company plans to start rolling out the terminations as early as next week, according to people briefed on the situation.
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The layoffs arrive a few months after the company announced it was excising 14,000 roles. At the time, Amazon signaled that more cuts could come in 2026 as it found “additional places we can rerelocate layers.” Managers were given a choice to create cuts in October or wait until the new year, declared the people, who requested anonymity to discuss an internal matter.
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.
Reuters reported the latest terminations earlier on Thursday. An Amazon spokesperson declined to comment.
While the company employed a total of about 1.57 million people as of Sept. 30, most of them work in warehoapplys. The layoffs affect the corporate workforce, which comprises approximately 350,000 personnel.
(Updated with company comment, context in last paragraph.)
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