This would form part of a major restructuring across its corporate workforce, with 14,000 jobs expected to be cut globally. Reuters earlier said the company was planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs, as the company compensates for overhiring during the peak demand of the pandemic. The figure represents a small percentage of Amazon’s 1.55 million total employees, but nearly 10 per cent of its roughly 350,000 corporate employees. This would mark Amazon’s largest job cut since late 2022, when it started to eliminate around 27,000 positions. Layoffs.fyi, a website tracking tech job cuts, estimated that about 98,000 jobs have been lost so far this year among 216 companies.
