Amazon.com Inc. has reportedly laid off fewer than 1,000 positions across multiple business units, with employees reporting cuts affecting teams in the U.S., India, and the U.K. Workers said Tuesday they received emails notifying them that their positions had been eliminated, Business Insider reported on Wednesday, with messages shared in an internal Slack channel with almost 37,000 members indicating the reductions reached customer service, marketplace support and engineering roles within Amazon's retail operations. Amazon told the publication that it eliminated a small number of roles, primarily in its Stores business, as part of a restructuring aimed at moving faster and supporting its priorities, and said it would support affected employees through the transition. The latest cuts follow a much larger restructuring announced in January, when Amazon confirmed approximately 16,000 job reductions across the company, adding to the 14,000 corporate job cuts announced in October 2025 and bringing total planned reductions to about 30,000 roles, or roughly 1% of its 1.56 million workforce, affecting AWS, retail, Prime Video, and the People Experience and Technology unit. Last month, Amazon was reportedly seeking former employees, including some previously laid off, for artificial intelligence and cloud-computing positions through its AI agent organization, led by AWS Vice President Swami Sivasubramanian, which launched a "Swami's Boomerang Reengagement Initiative" to reconnect with former workers specializing in AI and machine learning.
Amazon.com IncAmazon eliminated fewer than 1,000 roles across US, India and UK as part of restructuring, following earlier large layoffs totaling ~30,000 planned cuts.
