Amazon to lay off as many as 30,000 corporate jobs in latest round

Amazon is preparing to eliminate as many as 30,000 corporate positions beginning Tuesday, a reduction that would affect roughly 10 percent of its estimated 350,000 office employees and mark the company’s largest single round of cuts since late 2022. People familiar with the matter said notifications to impacted staff were expected to be sent by email Tuesday morning and that managers received guidance Monday on how to communicate the changes.

Company officials and sources describe the layoffs as part of a broader effort to rein in costs after rapid expansion during the pandemic and to simplify operations that executives regard as overly bureaucratic. The reductions are expected to span multiple units, with human resources functions, devices and services teams, and operations among the areas likely to see the greatest impact. Sources cautioned that the final scope could change as Amazon balances shifting financial priorities.

The planned cuts follow a steady pattern of workforce reductions across the company over the past two years. Amazon eliminated about 27,000 jobs in late 2022 and has made numerous smaller reductions since, including in Amazon Web Services, Prime Video and...