Liputan6.com, Jakarta Global e-commerce giant Amazon is reportedly planning massive layoffs that will impact tens of thousands of its employees, which will be the biggest number in the company history.
The company plans to lay off as many as 30,000 staffers across its corporate workforce, according to Reuters, which first reported the news.
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Official notices regarding these Amazon layoffs are scheduled to begin mailing on Tuesday, October 28, 2025.
This decision comes in response to various factors, including excessive hiring policies that occurred during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Additionally, Amazon is reportedly seeking to significantly cut operational costs.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has previously hinted that the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) will reduce the need for human labor in several divisions.
Reasons Behind Amazon Layoff Wave
One of the main drivers of these Amazon layoffs is its overly aggressive hiring policies during the pandemic.
As e-commerce demand surged, Amazon hired numerous corporate employees to meet the demand.
However, as market conditions normalized, this number of employees was deemed excessive and inefficient, as reported by CNBC.
Andy Jassy has asserted that AI will automate many tasks, reducing the need for human labor.
Jassy said in June that Amazon’s workforce could shrink further as a result of the company embracing generative AI, telling staffers that the company “will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs.”
These layoff plans would also be the largest in the tech industry since at least 2020, according to Layoffs.fyi.
As of Monday, more than 200 tech companies had laid off about 98,000 employees since the start of the year, according to the site, which tracks layoffs in the tech sector.
Affected Departments of The Layoffs
These Amazon layoffs are expected to spread across the company's core business units.
The logistics, payments, video game, and cloud computing departments of Amazon Web Services (AWS) are among those that will feel the impact of the cuts.
Even the Human Resources (HR) department will not be spared from this restructuring.
If this plan comes to fruition, the layoffs of 30,000 corporate employees would be one of the largest workforce reductions in Amazon's history.
This surpasses the layoffs that occurred in 2022-2023, when the company cut more than 27,000 corporate employees.
CNBC even called it the largest layoff ever by a technology company.
These 30,000 employees represent approximately 10% of Amazon's 350,000 corporate employees.
“It’s hard to know exactly where this nets out over time, but in the next few years, we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce,” Jassy said in the June memo to staff.
AI as Amazon's Main Workforce
Internal reports indicate that Amazon plans to replace approximately 600,000 warehouse workers with robots, AI, and other automation tools by 2033.
The increased use of AI tools is expected to lead to further job cuts in the future, particularly in positions involving routine tasks.
eMarketer analyst Sky Canaves highlighted that these large-scale layoffs demonstrate Amazon's confidence in AI's ability to improve corporate efficiency and productivity.
"This latest move signals that Amazon is likely realizing enough AI-driven productivity gains within corporate teams to support a substantial reduction in force," said Sky Canaves, an eMarketer analyst.
"Amazon has also been under pressure in the short-term to offset the long-term investments in building out its AI infrastructure."