Ecommerce major Amazon is likely to head for another round of workforce reduction. According to media reports, the latest move could affect about 16,000 employees globally.
The move comes as part of a wider restructuring drive that could see about 30,000 corporate roles being eliminated by mid 2026. This is also expected to hit the Indian employees harder than before, including AWS, Prime Video, retail operations, and the People Experience and Technology (PXT) division, Amazon’s internal HR arm. Indian corporate teams, particularly those based in cities such as Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Chennai, are seen as especially vulnerable this time, according to India Today
If this is realised, the fresh round of layoffs could surpass the massive 27,000 layoffs that Amazon did in 2022 and 2023.
The company employs roughly 1.57 Mn people globally, while the current layoff focuses on white-collar workers, numbering around 350,000.
