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Amazon The company plans to lay off as many as 30,000 corporate employees starting on Tuesday to cut expenses and make up for overhiring during peak pandemic demand, according to three people familiar with the matter.
That number is a fraction of Amazon's total workforce of 1.55 million, but nearly 10% of the company's roughly 350,000 enterprise employees. This would be Amazon's largest layoff since it began laying off approximately 27,000 employees in late 2022.
An Amazon spokesman declined to comment.
Amazon has been cutting jobs in multiple divisions over the past two years, including devices, communications, podcasts and more. The layoffs, which begin this week, are likely to affect multiple departments within Amazon, including human resources (i.e., “people experience and technology”), equipment and services, and operations, people familiar with the matter said.
Managers of the affected teams were asked to receive training on Monday on how to communicate with employees after the notification was sent out via email on Tuesday morning, people familiar with the matter said.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is launching a move to reduce what he says is the company's excessive bureaucracy, including reducing the number of managers. He said earlier this year that he set up an anonymous complaint hotline to identify inefficiencies and had received about 1,500 responses and made more than 450 process changes.
Jassy said in June that increased use of artificial intelligence tools could lead to further job losses, particularly by automating repetitive and routine tasks.
The full scope of this round of layoffs is unclear. That number could change over time as Amazon's financial priorities change, people familiar with the matter said. Fortune magazine earlier reported that human resources departments may be cut by about 15%.
Amazon shares rose 1.2% to $226.80 on Monday afternoon. The company is scheduled to report third-quarter earnings on Thursday.