Amazon Layoffs 2026: In the latest round of layoffs, Amazon has cut fewer than 1,000 white-collar jobs, primarily in its Stores business, which oversees the main e-commerce website, according to a Reuters
report. The job cuts come as Amazon ran one of its biggest shopping events, Prime Big Deal Days. The two-day promotional event began on Tuesday and offered discounts across a wide range of products.
The latest layoffs are part of a series of smaller workforce reductions at Amazon following a much larger round of job cuts that began last year and continued into January. Amazon had previously announced plans to eliminate around 30,000 corporate positions.
Amazon Layoffs: Stores Business Hit
According to Reuters, the latest cuts affect fewer than 1,000 white-collar employees, citing a person familiar with the matter. Business Insider had earlier reported the layoffs.
Amazon confirmed the job cuts but did not disclose the exact number of employees affected.
“We’ve adjusted parts of our Stores business because we believe this structure will better enable us to deliver on our priorities,” an Amazon spokesperson said in an emailed statement, according to Reuters.
The company’s Stores unit oversees Amazon’s main e-commerce website and includes several businesses and functions. Internal Slack messages reviewed by Reuters indicated that employees across multiple divisions, including customer service and selling partner services, were affected.
Employees in the US, India and the UK were among those who received layoff notices, Reuters reported.
Amazon Layoffs Continue After 30,000 Job Cuts
The latest reductions come after Amazon embarked on one of its biggest corporate workforce cuts last year. The company began eliminating around 30,000 jobs, with the layoffs continuing into January.
Amazon’s workforce had expanded significantly during the Covid-19 pandemic as consumers increasingly shifted to online shopping. The company subsequently began reducing its headcount as demand patterns changed and it focused on controlling costs.
Amazon founder and executive chairman Jeff Bezos also addressed the previous round of job cuts in a Fox News interview aired on Wednesday. “The whole team worked extremely hard and did so much, but we really grew our head count,” Bezos said, referring to the company’s pandemic-era hiring.
He added that the company had overhired during the period when people were staying home and ordering more products online.
“People were staying home and they were ordering, and it was an incredible, stressful period for us, by the way,” Bezos said, explaining the circumstances behind Amazon’s earlier workforce expansion.
The latest cuts suggest Amazon is continuing to reshape its corporate workforce even as its core e-commerce business remains focused on major shopping events such as Prime Big Deal Days.
