Key Takeaways
- Three anonymous sources say that the cuts are coming this week.
- Job cuts may affect HR, devices, services, and operations.
- Across the sector, nearly 100,000 tech employees have been laid off in 2025 so far.
Amazon might be preparing for one of the biggest job cuts in its history: Reports from anonymous sources claim that the company will lay off as many as 30,000 corporate employees this week.
These cuts would impact nearly 10% of the company’s corporate ranks, although it’s just a fraction of the company’s total workforce workwide, which numbers over 1.55 million.
The reasoning, according to those in the know, is to cut costs and to adjust for overhiring during the peak of the pandemic.
Biggest Amazon Cuts Since 2022
Amazon has laid off similarly huge amounts of employees in the past, even if a number as high as 30,000 is very rare: Starting in 2022 and continuing into 2023, the ecommerce giant cut around 27,000 positions.
The new report comes from Reuters, which cites “three people familiar with the matter” for the news.
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Multiple Amazon divisions have been impacted by cuts in the past two years, including devices, communications, and podcasting, among others.
HR, Operations, Devices, and Services Are Reportedly Seeing Cuts
Who’s on the chopping block this week? The new cuts “may impact a variety of divisions within Amazon, including human resources, known as People Experience and Technology, devices and services and operations, among others,” sources say.
These particular cuts haven’t been explicitly tied to AI innovations. However, in June 2025, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said that AI tools would likely impact jobs, saying “We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs.”
Analyst Sky Canaves also notes that Amazon is under pressure to deliver short-term benefits in order to offset the long-term investment costs of creating its AI infrastructure.
Nearly 100,000 Jobs Lost in Tech This Year So Far
At its last count, the job cut watchdog Layoffs.fyi estimates that 98,344 tech employees have been laid off in 2025 so far. By the end of this week, that number might be up.
Still, it’ll have to jump significantly to beat the 153,000 jobs that Layoffs.fyi estimates were lost across all of 2024.
Even if tech jobs haven’t been dropping as quickly as they have for the past few years, the downward trend still isn’t reversing itself. We’ve charted the biggest tech cuts across the last few years, and each one leaves hundreds or thousands of tech employees on a now oversaturated job market.
