Amazon Poised to Lay Off Up To 30,000 Employees Tomorrow

Multiple reports now say that Amazon will lay off up to 30,000 employees as soon as tomorrow, though some layoffs could extend into early 2026.

The coming Amazon layoffs were first reported by Reuters, but The New York Times has since independently confirmed the story. Both reports cite multiple sources. And both claim that Amazon is trying to cut billions in expenses and pare down a workforce that ballooned during the 2020 pandemic.

Amazon is unique among its Big Tech peers in that it employs far more people because of its massive logistics and warehouse operations, both of which are largely unrelated to technology. It employed over 1.5 million people as of the end of 2024, but only 350,000 or so are considered corporate employees. So the 30,000 figure, if accurate, would be nearly 10 percent of that latter workforce. And the largest single layoff in Amazon’s history. It previously eliminated about 27,000 positions in late 2022 and early 2023.

According to Reuters, managers were required to undergo training today to handle tomorrow’s layoffs, and notifications will begin going out via email starting Tuesday morning.

The layoffs won’t include Amazon’s annual seasonal hiring binge, with Reuters claiming that the firm will offer 250,000 temporary jobs to help staff warehouses during the coming holiday season.

Amazon will report its latest quarterly earnings on Thursday. The company is expected to spend about $120 billion in the current fiscal year on capital expenses tied to its AI datacenter buildout, a gain of 50 percent over the previous year.