Amazon stated Wednesday it plans to remove about 16,000 company jobs, marking its second spherical of mass job cuts since final October.

In a blog post, the corporate wrote that the layoffs have been a part of an ongoing effort to “strengthen our group by decreasing layers, rising possession, and eradicating paperwork.” That coincides with a push to invest heavily in synthetic intelligence.

The job reductions come only a few months after October’s layoffs, when 14,000 employees have been let go throughout Amazon’s company workforce. On the time, the corporate indicated the cuts would proceed in 2026 because it discovered “extra locations we are able to take away layers.”

Beth Galetti, Amazon’s senior vice chairman of individuals expertise and expertise, did not rule out extra job cuts sooner or later, however stated the corporate is not attempting to create “a brand new rhythm” of broad layoffs each few months.

“That is not our plan,” Galetti wrote within the weblog submit. “However simply as we at all times have, each group will proceed to guage the possession, velocity, and capability to invent for patrons, and make changes as applicable.”

On Tuesday, some workers in Amazon’s cloud unit acquired an e mail despatched in an obvious error acknowledging “organizational modifications” on the firm. The be aware referenced a submit from Galetti and stated Amazon notified “impacted colleagues in our group.”

Amazon had about 1.58 million workers as of the top of its third quarter. That determine is primarily made up of warehouse and logistics employees.

The 30,000 job cuts since October characterize about 10% of its company and tech workforce, which includes about 350,000 individuals.

Amazon has been within the midst of a major downsizing for the previous a number of years. The corporate laid off greater than 27,000 workers between 2022 and 2023, and it carried out smaller cuts throughout varied organizations in 2024.

CEO Andy Jassy has appeared to slim down Amazon’s workforce after the corporate went on a hiring spree through the Covid-19 pandemic, partly to fulfill a surge in demand for e-commerce and cloud computing providers.

Jassy has additionally appeared to reset Amazon’s company tradition in order that it might function just like the “world’s largest startup.” He set inner targets to slash administration layers and established a “no paperwork e mail alias” to determine methods the corporate can innovate quicker.

Amazon has additionally been slicing prices throughout its enterprise in order that it might make investments extra in AI and the fast build-out of knowledge facilities. Earlier this week, the corporate shuttered its Recent and Go grocery chains after years of experimentation.

Final October, Amazon stated it expects capital expenditures to succeed in $125 billion for 2026, the highest spending forecast among the many megacap firms.

Jassy said last June that effectivity positive factors from AI would possible trigger Amazon’s company head depend to fall within the coming years.

“We are going to want fewer individuals doing a number of the jobs which are being completed at this time, and extra individuals doing different kinds of jobs,” Jassy stated on the time.