Amazon is planning a sharp wave of layoffs starting Tuesday, affecting up to 30,000 company jobs, according to a Reuters report.
The e-commerce and web services giant and parent company of Amazon MGM Studios and Prime Video is still working to reduce its workforce after excessive hiring during Covid. The reductions will likely affect several divisions.
Layoffs of this magnitude would represent about 10% of the company’s 350,000 employees. Its total global workforce, of about 1.5 million full- and part-time, is much larger and made up largely of warehouse workers. Reuters said the cuts would represent the largest wave of layoffs at Amazon since cutting some 27,000 jobs starting at the end of 2022, and that managers were undergoing training Monday on communicating with staff before the pink forms began arriving in inboxes Tuesday morning.
Amazon in August reorganized its audio divisions, laying off more than 100 workers and significantly reducing the scope of its Wondery studio. In January 2024, the company laid off several hundred employees across Prime Video and Amazon Studios as part of a review of its businesses.
Amazon representatives were not immediately available for comment.
The report comes as the company is one of several circling Warner Bros. Discovery, which officially put itself up for sale last week after receiving interest from multiple parties.
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