The job cuts arrive a few months after the company announced it was excising 14,000 roles. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA WireAmazon announced plans to cut about 16,000 corporate employees, ratcheting up efforts to streamline bureaucracy amid rising competition over artificial intelligence. The job cuts arrive a few months after the company announced it was excising 14,000 roles. Combined, the total number of terminations echoes the rolling lay-offs Amazon instituted in late 2022 and early 2023 that ultimately snared about 27,000 people. Amazon initiated a big round of job cuts in October, removing 14,000 corporate roles and gutting its video games division.

Source: The Irish Times January 28, 2026 12:53 UTC