Posted on 10/28/2025 9:15:05 PM PDT by algore
The ax is falling on Amazon corporate offices.
The Seattle-based retail giant confirmed it will cut approximately 14,000 corporate jobs, and employees will begin receiving layoff notices starting Tuesday, Amazon announced.
It’s unclear how many of those jobs will be lost in Washington state.
Puget Sound Business Journal reporter Nick Pasion, who covers big tech, says the Amazon workers he’s talked to report that their managers are being tight-lipped, but “They are feeling a palpable sense of fear within the company, just concerned that they might be impacted. Some of their friends might be impacted.”
And that’s not a baseless concern.
“Amazon has about 350,000 corporate employees globally. So if you’re talking about up to 30,000, that’s a pretty substantial chunk,” said GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop.
Amazon has yet to confirm the layoffs, let alone give a reason for them. Pasion says some of this may be due to post-pandemic downsizing.
“Amazon, pretty notoriously overhired during the pandemic. Their head count went up by, like tens of thousands of employees, during that period,” said Pasion.
But he notes the company has already done significant post-pandemic course correcting, laying off 27,000 employees in 2022 and 2023.
Amazon may now be looking to cut corporate jobs to reinvest in artificial intelligence infrastructure.
“Data centers, chips, getting power, all of that is super, super expensive,” said Pasion. “We’re seeing a lot of companies spend their free cash on that infrastructure and building it out and hiring artificial intelligence scientists to develop models internally, and those people are paid lots and lots of money for what they do.”
Amazon isn’t the only high-tech Puget Sound–area company shedding jobs. Microsoft has cut 15,000 positions globally this year.
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Shouldn't they be the first out the door ?
I bet not though
we won’t know about amazon for a while but
Vice President J.D. Vance publicly lambasted Microsoft, declaring he did not want companies to terminate American employees only to then petition for H?1B labor.
“I don’t want companies to fire 9,000 American workers and then say we can’t find workers here in America,” Vance said.
Former White House advisor Steve Bannon echoed the sentiment, urging a halt to all visa programs amid mass layoffs.
Social media users amplified the controversy, citing that Microsoft had filed upward of 14,181 H1B visa requests in 2025, triggering outrage over perceived exploitation of the system despite job cuts.
“Big layoffs at Amazon”
Good.
Plan to replace with AI?
I saw this today and wondered about the new Amazon HQ2 they recently built across the Potomac from DC. Amazon already had postponed putting up the second building there. However, DC is much closer to the money than Seattle, and Virginia is more business-friendly than Washington state. I suspect a lot of this is to move as much business out of Seattle as possible.
If it has anything to do with being in Seattle, perhaps some Amazon employees are also Antifa. Maybe Amazon suspects some of them. Maybe….
Boo hoo hoo.
I went to university with a lot of Amazon people.
They were liberal idiots.
I worked at Boeing. Had a family to support.
Trying to improve myself while
dealing with these brainless
kids.
I earned a BS in Computer science,
they got degrees in homosexual studies.
They typed faster than me, and were involved
with Liberal causes.
I just worked to fed and house my family
and worked my way through
to a degree.
I have no respect for those liberals.
Today, I’m retired on acreage in Hawaii.
I have no debts.
I do not owe Liberals ANYTHING!
My thoughts as well. Probably missed too much time off.
You know, burning down Seattle and raising their employers taxes to pay for the police over time.
Liberals. Always crapping in their own nest.
I miss 1968
https://youtu.be/R5L6PWNaZCE?si=zzlkCHLO9mNtdsUl
I was gonna start it about 39 seconds in
48-49 seconds in is better
Amazon may be cutting corporate jobs to reinvest in AI
infrastructure.
<><>Data centers, chips, getting power, all of that is super, super expensive
<><>a lot of companies spend their free cash on that infrastructure and building it out
<><>and hiring AI scientists to develop models internally,
<><>they are paid lots and lots of money for what they do.
I hope they are Americans.
My son and daughter-in-law both work in the Seattle executive offices of Amazon. They both love it there.
Amazon is streamlining by removing unprofitable operations.
9% is substantial?! Suck it up dbag.
Washington will always have tons of jobs for paid rioters.
——Plan to replace with AI?-———
Robots and robotic systems.
There are recent articles describing that Amazon will or perhaps is deploying robots in their warehouses to pick orders. Real people apparently do that at present.
What is interesting is that Amazon is apparently implementing ware house robots and systems that many other companies have utilized for a very ling time now.
Stop all H1B’s now and indefinitely.
No judge stepped in to stop it???
Take notice, federal bureaucrats. This is how the real world operates.
EC
No. I toured the large AZ fulfillment center in Phoenix back in March. 5-6 stories tall and millions of square feet (larger than a pro football stadium). Humans do not carry packages anywhere outside of spot fixes.
They have robots and conveyor belts everywhere. The robots are the size of a refrigerator and weigh several hundred pounds (the robot is just a carrier about the 12-14 inches high and carries a stack of bins on it) that hold products in the bins on them and they move around autonomous from human station to human station to have product orders picked/restocked to put on a conveyor belt to go to yet another robot. Some can go up to a seed of a running human.
They have a large fenced area that only certain people can enter and they have to have a certain badge on or all the robots will shutdown immediately. It is highly automated.
It was quite interesting to see and worth a tour just to see the tech alone if you are ever near one. It takes about an hour. Not your local Amazon distribution center, you have to go to a big fulfillment center and they are all near large airport.
Thanks for that. That is as it should be. Amazon should have the best of the best, state of the art robotic pick system.
I saw a very recent report that implied that Amazon was going to implement such an undescribed, new system, that would result in the lay off of thousands.
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