Overview
- Most affected employees are being notified today and given 90 days to pursue internal roles, with severance, outplacement services and health benefits if they do not transition.
- The reductions touch multiple corporate divisions, with reports citing devices, advertising, Prime Video, HR/PXT, operations and AWS among the areas impacted.
- The cuts represent roughly 4% of Amazon’s approximately 350,000 corporate employees within a global workforce of about 1.56 million.
- Amazon says it will continue hiring in priority areas and is proceeding with plans to add about 250,000 seasonal warehouse and delivery workers for the holidays.
- Reuters previously reported plans for up to 30,000 corporate cuts, and Amazon leadership indicates reshaping of teams will continue into next year.