The spree of layoffs doesn’t appear to be ebbing despite large-scale firings in tech giants. Amazon has reportedly cut 84 jobs, separate from 14000 corporate layoffs in October globally, according to a report of Greekwire.
Amazon said as reported by Greekwire that these job cuts aren’t linked to broader workforce actions. “Each of its businesses regularly reviews its organizational structure and may make adjustments as a result. Terming it a “routine process”.
“We’ve informed a relatively small number of employees that their roles will be eliminated as the result of individual business decisions,” said Amazon spokesperson Brad Glasser. “We don’t make decisions like this lightly,” he added, noting that the company is providing affected employees with 90 days of full pay and benefits, transitional health coverage, and job placement services.
As a new State law the State’s new version of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, known as the WARN Act. requires companies/employers to disclose all terminations within 90 days of a prior notice, Amazon intimated the Washington Authorities.
According to an Amazon filing, the separations are set to take place between February 2 and February 23, 2026, affecting staff across more than 30 office locations in Seattle and Bellevue, along with six remote employees based in Washington.
The roles impacted reportedly include software development engineers, program managers, recruiters, HR specialists and UX designers, spanning levels from entry-level positions to directors and principals.
Amazon said employees were informed beginning in early November and were given at least 89 days’ advance notice, well above the 60-day requirement under the law. The company added that employees who secure internal transfers before their separation date will not be laid off.
In June, CEO Andy Jassy, who has aggressively sought to cut costs since becoming CEO in 2021, said that he anticipated generative AI would reduce Amazon’s corporate workforce in the next few years.
Jassy said at the time that Amazon had more than 1,000 generative AI services and applications in progress or built, but that figure was a “small fraction” of what it plans to build. Jassy encouraged employees to get on board with the company’s AI plans after it announced plans to invest $10 billion building a campus in North Carolina to expand its cloud computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure.
