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Amazon’s 14,000 employee layoffs impact managers, applied scientists, software engineers and recruiters as thousands of laid off Amazon staff begin to be notified of their termination.
Amazon slashed 4% of its 350,000-person global corporate workforce, marking one of the largest job cuts in the company's history.
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One of America’s largest employers is planning major layoffs, according to Reuters, an indication of major shifts coming to the labor market.
Sticking out like a sore thumb in Amazon's earning release is the operating income figure. While solace can be found in the figure's 16% YoY increase, it's hard to ignore that it remained virtually unchanged YoY in Q3 2025 (see chart below).
Amazon has bounced back from the 2022 sell-off, but its gains have been relatively muted during the AI boom compared to some of its Magnificent Seven peers.
Amazon chief executive Andy Jassy’s explanation for why the company is cutting 14,000 employees? Not money. Not even AI, but “culture.”
The job cuts at Amazon were announced Tuesday and account for 4% of the online retail company’s corporate workforce.
Amazon has multiple strong economic moats. Its cloud and e-commerce businesses have tremendous growth prospects. The company is also continually looking for new markets to conquer. Amazon is no longer the scrappy start-up it was in 1997.
Amazon is pouring billions into AI infrastructure. Its cloud boss says the company feels "quite good" about its strategy.
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