Amazon has minimize a complete of 57 jobs in Washington state throughout varied groups, together with roles on the director and senior supervisor ranges, based on a submitting made public Monday morning.
Folks impacted by the cuts embody 16 software program engineers in addition to product managers and inventive advertising and marketing workers working in Seattle and Bellevue workplaces. 9 distant workers, together with investigation specialists and threat managers, have been additionally let go.
Staff have been notified of the layoffs all through Could and in early June, based on an Amazon submitting with the Employment Safety Division, launched Monday underneath the Employee Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act. The roles are scheduled to finish in August.
“[W]e filed a WARN discover as a result of a couple of companies throughout the corporate made organizational adjustments that every impacted a small variety of workers — generally fewer than 5 workers per enterprise,” mentioned Brad Glasser, an Amazon spokesperson, through e-mail.
WARN notifications are triggered by state legislation when greater than 50 Washington-based workers in complete are laid off over a interval of 30 days.
“We don’t make choices like this frivolously, and we’re dedicated to supporting the workers who have been impacted,” Glasser added.
It’s an indication of the broader belt-tightening throughout the tech business. Microsoft individually minimize greater than 600 jobs in Washington state on Monday morning, a part of international layoffs eliminating 4,800 roles throughout the Redmond firm, primarily in gross sales, consulting and gaming.
The newest Amazon cuts comply with layoffs of two,198 Washington-based workers in February and a pair of,303 in October 2025. Globally, the corporate has eradicated roughly 30,000 positions up to now yr, cumulatively amounting to the the biggest workforce discount in its historical past.
The a number of rounds of layoffs have hit wide-ranging positions and divisions, with software program engineers the toughest hit. Company assist, industrial features, authorized, tax, and advert gross sales positions have all seen cuts, as have Amazon’s core expertise group, gaming division and robotics unit.
The earlier bigger cuts have been a part of an effort to “cut back layers, enhance possession, and take away forms,” based on a memo despatched to workers and posted on-line earlier this yr by Beth Galetti, senior vp of individuals expertise and expertise.
Amazon’s company roles numbered round 50,000 within the Seattle space.
Tech giants nationwide have made spherical after spherical of job cuts up to now yr as they pour billions into AI knowledge heart expansions and achieve labor efficiencies via the usage of synthetic intelligence.
Amazon reported $181.5 billion in gross sales for the primary quarter of this yr, up 17% from a yr earlier. Income got here in at $30.3 billion, boosted by beneficial properties tied to the worth of its funding in Anthropic.
