Amazon to cut thousands of jobs
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By Greg Bensinger SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Amazon is planning a second round of job cuts next week as part of its broader goal of trimming some 30,000 corporate workers, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Analysts and AWS watchers agree that the roughly 15,000 cuts are caused by ‘culture’, but there is disagreement about what that actually means.
Amazon plans fresh corporate layoffs next week, targeting AWS, retail and Prime Video amid cost cuts and AI-driven restructuring.
Amazon layoffs: Amazon is initiating a major corporate restructuring this January 2026. The tech giant plans to cut approximately 16,000 additional white-collar roles. These terminations follow 14,000 layoffs from late 2025.