The company made the cuts in customer service, selling partner services and other divisions within the Stores unit, and possibly other Amazon units, and laid off employees in the United States, India and the United Kingdom, according to the report.
An Amazon spokesperson confirmed that the company made a small number of cuts to the Stores unit, but didn’t specify the number, according to the report.
“We’ve adjusted parts of our Stores business because we believe this structure will better enable us to deliver on our priorities,” the Amazon spokesperson said, per the report.
These job cuts follow Amazon’s elimination of 30,000 positions in 2025 and into January, as well as several smaller reductions since then, according to the report.
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Jeff Bezos, founder and executive chairman of Amazon, told Fox News that the company is continuing to cut jobs because it added too many employees during the pandemic, per the report.
Amazon announced in January that it was cutting 16,000 jobs across its global workforce. In a message to employees shared publicly, Beth Galetti, senior vice president of people experience and technology at Amazon, said the cuts were part of the company’s ongoing effort to “strengthen our organization by reducing layers, increasing ownership and removing bureaucracy.”
Galetti said that teams would continue to reassess their organizational structure to “make adjustments as appropriate.”
The job cuts announced in January were added to 14,000 layoffs Amazon made three months earlier, in October 2025.
Reuters reported in January that the 30,000 jobs Amazon was cutting in those two rounds of layoffs amounted to only a small portion of the company’s 1.58 million employees but 10% of its corporate workforce.
Reuters reported in July that Amazon cut jobs in its artificial general intelligence (AGI) group after consolidating AGI work into part of a larger group that also includes silicon development and quantum computing. The scope of the cuts was not clear, per the report.
The report said Amazon had also made a series of smaller workforce reductions since the much bigger round of layoffs in January.
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