Amazon is introducing a new wave of job cuts just three months after eliminating tens of thousands of corporate roles.
In a letter shared with employees, Beth Galetti, Amazon’s senior vice president of People Experience and Technology, says the latest reductions follow organizational changes that began last year but were not completed across all teams until now.
Galetti says the current round of reductions will affect approximately 16,000 roles globally, with Amazon offering most US-based employees 90 days to seek another internal role before separation, subject to local requirements in other countries.
“For teammates who are unable to find a new role at Amazon or who choose not to look for one, we’ll provide transition support including severance pay, outplacement services, health insurance benefits, and more.”
Galetti says the job cuts are designed to restructure how work gets done inside the company, emphasizing ownership, speed and fewer layers of management at a time when technology and customer expectations are evolving rapidly.
Despite the job cuts, Galetti notes that Amazon will continue hiring in key areas and investing in parts of the business it sees as critical to long-term growth.
“While we’re making these changes, we’ll also continue hiring and investing in strategic areas and functions that are critical to our future. We’re still in the early stages of building every one of our businesses, and there’s significant opportunity ahead.”
She also reassures employees that the company is not planning recurring large-scale layoffs as a standard operating rhythm, saying that the reductions are instead part of ongoing evaluations of efficiency and capacity.
The latest announcement comes after the e-commerce titan announced in late October that it was eliminating as many as 30,000 corporate roles in an effort to trim expenses and streamline operations following heavy pandemic-era hiring
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