Amazon filed a brand new discover with Washington state Monday morning signaling that it’s chopping 84 jobs, however the person separations are a part of the common course of enterprise, unrelated to the 14,000 company layoffs it introduced globally in October.
The corporate mentioned every of its companies frequently critiques its organizational construction and should make changes in consequence. It’s a routine course of, the corporate mentioned, not tied to broader workforce actions.
The discover stems from a brand new state regulation that requires employers to reveal all terminations occurring inside 90 days of a previous discover below the state’s new “mini” model of the Employee Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, generally known as the WARN Act.
“We’ve knowledgeable a comparatively small variety of staff that their roles will likely be eradicated as the results of particular person enterprise choices,” mentioned Amazon spokesperson Brad Glasser. “We don’t make choices like this calmly,” he added, noting that the corporate is offering affected staff with 90 days of full pay and advantages, transitional well being protection, and job placement providers.
In response to the submitting, the separations are scheduled to happen between Feb. 2 and Feb. 23, 2026, throughout greater than 30 Seattle and Bellevue workplace areas, plus six distant staff based mostly in Washington. They embody software program growth engineers, program managers, recruiters, HR specialists, and UX designers, starting from entry-level to administrators and principals.
Amazon famous within the submitting that staff had been notified beginning in early November and acquired at the very least 89 days’ advance discover, exceeding the 60-day minimal required below the regulation. Those that discover inside transfers earlier than their separation date gained’t be laid off.
Individually, the corporate mentioned in October that it was chopping 14,000 company jobs globally as a part of CEO Andy Jassy’s push to scale back forms and function extra effectively. That earlier spherical included greater than 2,300 layoffs in Washington state, in accordance with a submitting on the time.
Amazon HR chief Beth Galetti signaled extra cuts might proceed into 2026. Reuters has reported the entire might in the end attain 30,000 — which might surpass the 27,000 positions eradicated in 2023 and mark the most important total layoff in firm historical past.
