Amazon has laid off 44,600 employees across 5 rounds since 2022.
44,600
Total Laid Off
5
Rounds
Technology
Industry
Jan 2026
Most Recent
January 28, 2026
16,000 employees(10% of workforce)
Amazon cut about 16,000 corporate roles — the largest reduction in its history — as part of a broader ~30,000-role program. CEO Andy Jassy framed it as flattening management and reducing bureaucracy rather than a purely financial or AI-driven move.
January 29, 2025
100 employees
Amazon cut a small number of roles — reportedly dozens — across its communications and sustainability units as it reviewed the org design of teams that had grown quickly.
January 10, 2024
500 employees
Amazon cut several hundred employees across Prime Video, MGM Studios, and Twitch.
January 5, 2023
18,000 employees
Amazon expanded its layoffs to 18,000 roles, the largest headcount reduction in the company's history.
November 16, 2022
10,000 employees
Amazon began laying off 10,000 corporate employees, the most in the company's history at the time.