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Amazon Cuts 14,000 Corporate Jobs in AI-Driven Restructuring
Tech giant cites need to move faster in 'most transformative' era since the internet's arrival.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/28/2025
Amazon announced Tuesday it will eliminate 14,000 corporate positions, its largest round of layoffs in years, as the company restructures to invest more heavily in artificial intelligence.
"This generation of AI is the most transformative technology we've seen since the Internet, and it's enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before," said Beth Galetti, senior vice president of people experience and technology at Amazon, in a blog post. "We're convinced that we need to be organized more leanly, with fewer layers and more ownership, to move as quickly as possible for our customers and businesses."
The cuts represent a pivotal shift in how Amazon views its workforce in an AI-driven future. In June, CEO Andy Jassy told employees that as the company rolls out more generative AI and autonomous agents, "we will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs."
Jassy's memo stated that Amazon expects AI adoption to reduce its total corporate workforce as the company achieves efficiency gains from extensive AI use across operations. The company is using AI to transform everything from Alexa and shopping assistants to advertising, fulfillment, and internal product development.
About 350,000 of Amazon's 1.55 million worldwide employees work in corporate offices.
The company said it would give affected employees 90 days to search for new internal roles, with recruiters prioritizing internal candidates.
The restructuring aligns with Jassy's broader effort to flatten Amazon's organizational structure. Last year, he set a goal to increase the ratio of individual contributors to managers by 15 percent by early 2025 as part of a mandate to operate like "the world's largest startup."
The layoffs come amid a wave of AI-related workforce reductions across the tech sector. Meta cut 600 jobs last week, Microsoft has eliminated more than 15,000 positions this year, and Salesforce reduced its workforce by 4,000 in September, citing "the benefits and efficiencies" of AI.
Even beyond tech, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon recently told employees the Wall Street lender would "constrain headcount growth through the end of the year" due to efficiencies gained through AI tools, Bloomberg reported.
"What we need to remember is that the world is changing quickly," Galetti said.
Amazon is scheduled to announce its third-quarter earnings on Thursday.
About the Author
John K. Waters is the editor in chief of a number of Converge360.com sites, with a focus on high-end development, AI and future tech. He's been writing about cutting-edge technologies and culture of Silicon Valley for more than two decades, and he's written more than a dozen books. He also co-scripted the documentary film Silicon Valley: A 100 Year Renaissance, which aired on PBS. He can be reached at [email protected].