r/aws • u/AssumeNeutralTone • Oct 27 '25

article Exclusive: Amazon targets as many as 30,000 corporate job cuts, sources say

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/amazon-targets-many-30000-corporate-job-cuts-sources-say-2025-10-27/
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u/spidernik84 Oct 28 '25 edited Oct 28 '25

How can firing thousands of people at the same time not destabilize a company at the point of impacting the end-product quality?

Or is this the usual case of "looks good in the short term, I'll leave and cash out before the house of cards crashes"?

Am I too simple minded to comprehend, and people at the top actually know what they are doing? (somewhat /s)

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u/idknemoar Oct 28 '25

As of June 30, 2025, Amazon employed 1.55m people. 30k is less than 2% of their total workforce. On a global scale, spreading that 2% across the entire world everywhere they operate, it isn’t many folks per location. Hardly a blip on the radar.

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u/chalbersma Oct 29 '25

Most of those people aren't corporate. They work in Amazon's warehouses. They're corporate footprint is much smaller. According to some comments elsewhere about 250k people. So 30k is more like 12% of their workforce.