Posted on 10/27/2025 1:02:43 PM PDT by DFG
Amazon is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs starting as soon as Tuesday, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
After over-hiring at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the company is reportedly working to cut expenses by making job cuts.
While the figure represents a small percentage of the company's 1.55 million total employees, it is almost 10 percent of its 350,000 corporate workers.
It would represent the largest job cut at Amazon since late 2022, when around 27,000 jobs were eliminated.
It comes months after CEO Andy Jassy said Amazon would reduce its corporate headcount as it increases its use of Artificial Intelligence.
In a note seen by the Wall Street Journal in June, he said AI was a once-in-a-lifetime technological advancement and it had already transformed how Amazon operates.
'As we roll out more Generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done,' he wrote in the memo.
'It's hard to know exactly where this nets out over time, but in the next few years, we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce.'
Amazon has been trimming smaller numbers of jobs over the past two years across multiple divisions, including devices, communications and podcasting, Reuters reported.
The cuts beginning this week may impact a variety of divisions within Amazon, including human resources, known as People Experience and Technology, devices and services and operations, among others, three people familiar with the matter told the publication.
Managers of impacted teams were asked to undergo training on Monday for how to communicate with staff following notifications that will start going out via email tomorrow morning, the people said.
Amazon is the second largest employer in the country and is seen as a bellwether for employment stability.
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If there’s one thing AI is doing very well it’s being used as an excuse for cutting payroll to increase the profits for upper management.
I wonder how many of those employees insisted on “working from home.”
And they plan to hire 35,000 H1Bs I’m sure.
If you have a kid in college right now doing CIS, if you know the kid is not the brightest bulb in the pack...insist they switch majors....the cream is rising and the Indian feces is sinking to the bottom.
I’m so glad I retired this year. I had a good career in IT. I feel like every aspect of it has now taken a bad turn. I would recommend plumbing or electrical work if a young person were to ask me.
Sounds like they have identified the bottom 10%, probably a good move.
The grocery sales didn't translate into a lot of other higher-margin sales as they had hoped.
Amazon did well with food sales during the Scamdemic but people still want to see their groceries up close. They also buy a lot impulsively while shopping in a store. You can't entice customers by smell through a computer screen and it's easier to sell food on display than by pictures alone.
In addition, the Amazon business model is to sell Amazon house-brand knockoffs, but shoppers don't trust knockoffs when it comes to food. Without being able to take advantage of knockoffs, Amazon's prices for brand name items would be close the supermarkets since the supermarkets operate on such a low margin to start with and the supermarkets don't have the cost of home delivery.
praying Trump puts a stop to this BS. why can’t he just end H-1B??
Hire 35,000 H-1B?
They already DID, and got Gov $$$ to “Continue their business” during COVID.
That’s the SCAM. The Biden Admin opened the doors and paid companies to land the Indians.
How do i know? Trust me, i know.
So are we thinking this is the evaporation of needless H1B grifters? As the ‘gubment cheese’ dries up so do these ‘jobs’?
AI is killing the middle class. In just a few years there will the Rich and the Poor and that’s it.
Bkmk
I retired this year as well. Software engineering full time since 1983. Toll Central Office Engineering before that and 3 years repairing and maintaining the electronics on a fleet of tuna seiners, crab boats, work boats, US Navy ships, day fishing boats and associated base stations. I enjoyed leveraging my First Class Radiotelephone license with Ships RADAR endorsement. A nice mix of some physical work in the field and detailed bench analysis and repair at the shop. There was a HUGE gap in pay between the electronics tech work and software engineering at a phone company and defense contractor. I was still fit for duty as a defense contractor. Not so for climbing ratlines to a crow's nest to install a VHF radio or the antennas on the "pig stick" above the crow's nest.
As I wrapped up my last contract, my internal position options were boiling down to work requiring a TS/SCI and physically being at an office in northern VA, Washington DC or Maryland. I was well qualified for the positions, but I'm 69 and have my houses free and clear. No debt. No desire to move just to chase another high pressure job. If I was 21 again in the current job market, the electrical or plumbing trades might be somewhat attractive. I do most of my own electrical and plumbing work anyway.
The other line of work I enjoyed was teaching electronics at a junior college. I did that successfully for 3 years in addition to the Toll COE work at Pacific Telephone. I don't see that as a reasonable thing to pursue now. A freshly minted college grad is going to be struggling to find employment that leverages the degree.
That sounds like western WA state after the windstorm this weekend. I took a drive around my local area of SE Idaho after lunch and enjoyed all the mountains covered in snow from 6,000 ft up. We're on the way to low 20s at night and just above freezing during the daylight hours now. Fixing downed powerlines in that kind of weather sucks.
,,, that’s 30,000 who won’t have money to buy from AMAZON.
“When it’s 25 degrees outside at 2 AM in the early morning, with a 20 mph wind, and snowing
like hell, and your power is out, lines down, the guy who fixes that deserves the bucks.”
You got that right! AI can’t fix that!
I wonder what will happen to all of those H1Bs...
AIs will not be buying things.
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