Amazon is preparing a fresh round of corporate layoffs next week, following roughly 14,000 job cuts in October 2025. The new round is part of the company’s plan to reduce about 30,000 corporate positions overall. Sources familiar with the matter told Reuters that the cuts will affect employees in Amazon Web Services, retail, Prime Video, and People Experience and Technology departments.

The October layoffs eliminated close to 4% of Amazon’s corporate workforce. Employees affected at that time were given 90 days to seek new roles within the company, according to a letter from Beth Galetti, senior vice president of People Experience and Technology. Amazon employs roughly 350,000 corporate workers and a total of about 1.56 million people worldwide.

Since becoming CEO in 2021, Andy Jassy has aggressively sought to cut costs while expanding Amazon’s investments in artificial intelligence. The company is spending $10 billion to build a campus in North Carolina for cloud computing and AI, and has made similar investments in data centers in Mississippi, Indiana, and Ohio to keep pace with other tech giants.

The upcoming layoffs, expected to affect a similar number of workers as the October round, mark the largest workforce reductions since 2023, when Amazon cut 27,000 jobs over two months. The company’s rapid expansion during the pandemic doubled its workforce, but in recent years Amazon has worked to trim staffing as part of broader cost management.

Analysts say the layoffs reflect the tension between Amazon’s massive growth ambitions in AI and the need to rein in corporate expenses, signaling a new phase of restructuring for one of America’s largest employers.