Amazon to announce largest layoffs in company history, source says 30,000

[Guno צְבִי]

Amazon is preparing to announce sweeping job cuts beginning Tuesday, CNBC has learned.

The layoffs will amount to the largest cuts to Amazon’s corporate workforce in the company’s history, spanning almost every business, according to a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named because the details are confidential.


Amazon is expected to begin informing employees of the layoffs via email Tuesday morning, the person said.

Amazon to announce largest layoffs in company history, source says

The layoffs will amount to the largest cuts to Amazon's corporate workforce in the company's history, according to a person familiar with the matter.

www.cnbc.com

 

[Phantasmal]

Amazon is preparing to announce sweeping job cuts beginning Tuesday, CNBC has learned.

The layoffs will amount to the largest cuts to Amazon’s corporate workforce in the company’s history, spanning almost every business, according to a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named because the details are confidential.


Amazon is expected to begin informing employees of the layoffs via email Tuesday morning, the person said.

Amazon to announce largest layoffs in company history, source says

The layoffs will amount to the largest cuts to Amazon's corporate workforce in the company's history, according to a person familiar with the matter.

www.cnbc.com

A sign of the times. DonOld’s economy sucks.

 

[Diogenes]

A sign of the times. DonOld’s economy sucks.

Imbecile.

Amazon plans to cut up to 30,000 corporate jobs starting as early as October 28, 2025. This would affect nearly 10% of its roughly 350,000 corporate employees and span departments including logistics, payments, gaming, cloud computing (AWS), human resources, and more.

The move, driven by CEO Andy Jassy's focus on cost-cutting, AI integration, and post-pandemic efficiency, would mark the largest corporate workforce reduction in Amazon's history—surpassing the 27,000 jobs eliminated in 2022-2023.

These layoffs align with broader tech industry trends, where over 100,000 jobs have been cut in 2025 amid automation pushes. Internal documents reportedly outline replacing up to 600,000 roles with AI and robots by 2033, though this primarily targets operational rather than corporate positions. Amazon has not officially commented, but sources describe notifications beginning via email on Tuesday, with managers trained on delivery.

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[cawacko]

Because we’re predictable on JPP, I looked back to 2023 and sure enough there was a thread about Amazon laying off thousands of workers. Of course that one was started by someone on the right and the left jumped in to defend.

Today it’s the economy. In 2023 it was, “It’s simple, after COVID people are returning to brick and mortar stores.”

 

[Hawkeye10]

Corporations continue to slash their bureaucracies......Microsoft as well cut 10%.......Starbucks over 20%.

 

[Cypress]

Amazon is preparing to announce sweeping job cuts beginning Tuesday, CNBC has learned.

The layoffs will amount to the largest cuts to Amazon’s corporate workforce in the company’s history, spanning almost every business, according to a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named because the details are confidential.


Amazon is expected to begin informing employees of the layoffs via email Tuesday morning, the person said.

Amazon to announce largest layoffs in company history, source says

The layoffs will amount to the largest cuts to Amazon's corporate workforce in the company's history, according to a person familiar with the matter.

www.cnbc.com

Thank the Trump economy.

 

[cawacko]

Corporations continue to slash their bureaucracies......Microsoft as well cut 10%.......Starbucks over 20%.

Yep, during and right after Covid tech firms went on a massive hiring binge.

Over the past several years they’ve been scaling back and laying off workers.

 

[Hawkeye10]

Because we’re predictable on JPP, I looked back to 2023 and sure enough there was a thread about Amazon laying off thousands of workers. Of course that one was started by someone on the right and the left jumped in to defend.

Today it’s the economy. In 2023 it was, “It’s simple, after COVID people are returning to brick and mortar stores.”

This is about AI and the Twitter example.....a lot of people now believe that 30ish-40ish % of the people do all of the stuff that is good for the corporation, the rest either contribute nothing or they are negative to performance.

Clean house and save money as America heads into very dark days is the order of the day.

 

[cawacko]

This is about AI and the Twitter example.....a lot of people now believe that 30ish-40ish % of the people do all of the stuff that is good for the corporation, the rest either contribute nothing or they are negative to performance.

Clean house and save money as America heads into very dark days is the order of the day.

This isn’t solely being driven by AI, but yes, it is certainly playing a role.

 

[Hawkeye10]

This isn’t solely being driven by AI, but yes, it is certainly playing a role.

I said it is not all AI.......it is also that the economy is headed into dark times and it is now conventional wisdom that there has been a lot of bloat in the bureaucracies and they now think that it is a good time for making a stab at figuring out which are the right people to unload.

 

[cawacko]

I said it is not all AI.......it is also that the economy is headed into dark times and it is now conventional wisdom that there has been a lot of bloat in the bureaucracies and they now think that it is a good time for making a stab at figuring out which are the right people to unload.

That's capitalism. Companies went on a hiring spree and now they are scaling back. It's a pattern we've seen many times before.

 

[Hawkeye10]

That's capitalism. Companies went on a hiring spree and now they are scaling back. It's a pattern we've seen many times before.

Companies have long at least suspected that their bureaucracies are bloated, but they lacked confidence that they would identify the right people to get rid of....now they are willing to make a stab at it.

 

[cawacko]

Companies have long at least suspected that their bureaucracies are bloated, but they lacked confidence that they would identify the right people to get rid of....now they are willing to make a stab at it.

I go back to these big tech firms went on a pandemic hiring binge and for several years now they've been cutting back. You might not be saying this but it didn't just start.