Amazon Layoffs 2025: Reason Behind 30,000 Jobs Cut

Amazon Layoffs 2025: This week, Amazon is expected to dismiss up to 30,000 corporate employees to introduce the largest job reduction in company history. Approximately, this will be a near 10% cut of the company's corporate headcount of roughly 350,000 workers as the company tries to ratchet back costs and streamline operations in light of an increase in jobs during the pandemic. The Amazon layoffs exceeds the 27,000 global positions announced to be eliminated in 2022 and represents a continued shift toward automation with aid from artificial intelligence tools. 

Why is Amazon Laying Off Employees in 2025? 

The layoffs all fit into an overarching strategy of cutting costs, getting rid of layers of bureaucracy, and embracing automation. CEO Andy Jassy has alluded to boosting of efficiency with artificial intelligence as a technology which will likely cut more 6,00,000 jobs in next year announced. During the pandemic surge, the company would rapidly add jobs, which has now led to a reexamination of job needs given that growth has slowed and new developments in technology.

‼️🇺🇸: It has begun.

Amazon to lay of 30,000 employees TOMORROW, with 600,000 total in the next year announced. 👀

This plus the shutdown affecting benefits won't cause problems, right? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/1MvBNgZ0QG

— Diligent Denizen 🇺🇸 (@DiligentDenizen) October 27, 2025

Amazon’s layoff Impact and Affected Areas

The layoffs would occur in corporate functions in several divisions, including human resources (People Experience and Technology teams), devices and services, and corporate functions in support of Amazon Web Services as well operational functions. While Amazon would transition to laying off thousands of corporate workers, the company has announced hiring about 250 seasonal workers in their warehouses for the holiday season to demonstrate that they still value hiring for frontline roles, even while closing corporate roles.

Amazon Stock Price and Market Reaction

Despite the circumstances, Amazon’s share price showed relative strength and modest improvement, finishing at around $227 on October 27, 2025. The stock market appears to interpret these layoffs as a responsible budget move amidst the integration of AI and changing economies, and not as a sign of distress.

What This Means for Workers and the Tech Industry

Amazon’s proposed layoffs convey broader trends in the tech sector around new job roles due to AI and automation adoption. In this, layoffs impact white-collar jobs rather than the more traditionally focused on warehouse workers, and so we see different circumstances arise as to the implementation of AI in the industry. As noted by industry experts, the logic reset that AI creates operational efficiencies alongside the fear of mass job losses must be analyzed with caution, and while technology creates efficiencies, it also creates new jobs.