Amazon has cut 57,000 corporate jobs since 2022: pressure rises on remaining staff

Amazon has eliminated more than 57,000 corporate jobs since 2022. By the company’s own count, that comes to about 16% of its corporate workforce.

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The biggest rounds are easy to spot: roughly 14,000 layoffs in late 2025, then another 16,000 in early 2026. Those were the largest cuts Amazon has ever made, reaching AWS, Prime Video, retail, and the company’s People, Experience and Technology, or PXT, HR group, even while hiring kept going in a few strategic areas. Amazon’s line is that this restructuring is meant to strip out bureaucracy and make the company run leaner after the pandemic hiring boom. Analysts put the annual savings at around $6 billion, money that can be funneled into data centers and advanced chips.

If you follow tech employment closely, this matters. Former Amazon employees are landing in a much tougher market, where job hunts that once ran about four months are now dragging out to 12 to 18 months, with Cisco, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, and Google all cutting staff too, and with industry trackers putting U.S. tech layoffs in 2023 at roughly 140,000.

And the pressure hasn’t fallen only on the people who left. Employees who stayed describe heavier workloads, shakier work-life balance, and the kind of survivor guilt that tends to settle in after repeated cuts. Amazon’s layoffs have also reached 370 corporate roles in Luxembourg, warehouse and contractor jobs in Quebec, and HR positions in India.