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Amazon Layoffs 2025: E-commerce giant American company Amazon is once again going to do mass layoffs. According to reports, the company can start the process of laying off about 30 thousand employees from Tuesday. Actually, due to increased demand during Covid-19, the company had made a large number of hirings, but now this step is being taken to cut expenses and increase operational efficiency.
Which departments will be affected?
A total of 15.5 lakh employees are currently working in Amazon, out of which 3.5 lakh are corporate staff. This is said to be the biggest layoff after 2022, when the company had removed about 27,000 employees. The information about layoffs was first given by news agency Reuters, although no official statement has come from Amazon on this.
In the last two years, Amazon had made small-scale layoffs in several departments like podcasting, communications and devices. This time’s layoffs are likely to impact HR, Operations, Devices and Services and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Workforce will change with AI and automation
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy had indicated in June that the company was moving rapidly in the direction of Artificial Intelligence (AI), which could reduce the workforce in the coming years. He had said in a memorandum issued to employees that with the increasing use of AI tools, many routine tasks will be automated, which may reduce the need for some roles. The company has instructed managers to take training on how to give layoff notices through email.
Wave of layoffs continues in tech sector
According to Layoffs.fyi, a website that monitors layoffs in the tech sector, so far 216 companies have laid off about 98,000 employees in the year 2025. Last year this number was around 1.53 lakh.
A day earlier on Monday, Amazon’s shares registered a gain of 1.2% and closed at $226.97. The company expects good profits in its quarterly results to be announced on Thursday. Amazon’s biggest source of profit is cloud computing unit AWS, whose sales grew 17.5% in the second quarter to $30.9 billion.
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