A pedestrian walks past Amazon Ireland corporate offices in Dublin, as Amazon.com, Inc., said on Tuesday it plans to cut its global corporate workforce by as many as 14,000 roles and seize the opportunity provided by artificial intelligence (AI), in Dublin, Ireland, Oct. 28, 2025.
Damien Eagers | Reuters
Amazon said Wednesday it plans to eliminate about 16,000 corporate jobs, marking its second round of mass job cuts since last October.
In a blog post, the company wrote that the layoffs were part of an ongoing effort to "strengthen our organization by reducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing bureaucracy." That coincides with a push to invest heavily in artificial intelligence.
The cuts come just a few months after October's layoffs, which cut 14,000 employees across Amazon's corporate workforce. At the time, the company indicated the cuts would continue in 2026 as it found "additional places we can remove layers."
Beth Galetti, Amazon's senior vice president of people experience and technology, didn't rule out more job cuts in the future, but said the company isn't trying to create "a new rhythm" of broad layoffs every few months.
"That's not our plan," Galetti wrote. "But just as we always have, every team will continue to evaluate the ownership, speed, and capacity to invent for customers, and make adjustments as appropriate."
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