Omnichannel
Amazon slashing 14K corporate jobs
November 6, 2025
Amazon is cutting 14,000 corporate jobs in a quest to reduce bureaucracy and shift resources to invest on what matters most of customers' needs.
The strategy comes as the omnichannel retailer is spending big on AI, according to a New York Times report, and on the heels of Target announcing it was cutting 1,800 corporate jobs.
The Amazon news was shared to staff in a memo from HR executive Beth Galetti that stated the layoffs would let Amazon invest in "our biggest bets."
There will be another corporate job cut in January, according to the news report.
"Some may ask why we're reducing roles when the company is performing well," Galetti wrote in the memo, according to the news outlet. "The world is changing quickly," she wrote, and AI represents "the most transformative technology we've seen since the internet."
