Amazon has confirmed plans to lay off 14,000 corporate workers, as part of a wave of cuts expected to hit tens of thousands of jobs in order to reverse a pandemic hiring spree.

The Guardian reports that, earlier in 2025, Amazon’s CEO warned white-collar employees that their jobs could be taken by artificial intelligence.

Beth Galetti, a senior vice-president at Amazon, wrote in a memo to employees on October 28: “The reductions we’re sharing today are a continuation of … work to get even stronger by further reducing bureaucracy, removing layers, and shifting resources to ensure we’re investing in our biggest bets and what matters most to our customers’ current and future needs.”

On October 27, Reuters and the Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon was planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter. CNBC called it the largest layoff in the company’s history.

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Although the layoffs represent a small portion of Amazon’s global workforce of 1.55 million employees, the figure represents a significant part of its roughly 350,000 corporate employees.

“This generation of AI is the most transformative technology we’ve seen since the internet, and it’s enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before (in existing market segments and altogether new ones),” Galetti said.