Amazon is cutting more jobs, and the latest round is hitting employees in its core Stores business.
The company confirmed that fewer than 1,000 white-collar workers are being affected across the US, India and the UK. Customer service and selling partner services are among the areas reportedly impacted, alongside other parts of Amazon’s retail organization.
Amazon Cuts More Jobs After Massive Workforce Reduction
The latest layoffs are considerably smaller than Amazon’s previous restructuring, but they add to a long-running effort to reduce headcount.
Amazon eliminated roughly 30,000 corporate positions through larger rounds of cuts that began in 2025 and continued into January of 2026. The company has since made smaller reductions in areas including robotics and its artificial general intelligence division.
Amazon said it adjusted parts of its Stores organization to better align the business with its priorities.
The timing is interesting because the cuts coincided with Prime Big Deal Days, which is one of Amazon’s biggest shopping events of the year.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos also addressed the company’s workforce reductions this week by saying Amazon hired aggressively during the COVID-19 pandemic as consumers shifted heavily toward online shopping. That expansion ultimately left the company with more employees than it needed once pandemic-era purchasing patterns normalized.
The restructuring also comes as Amazon redirects enormous amounts of capital toward artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure. The company is expected to spend around $220 billion on capital expenditure in 2026 to expand data centers and computing capacity for AWS and AI workloads.
Amazon Stock Slips After Layoff News
Amazon shares closed Wednesday at $259.92 after gaining 1.42% despite a decline in US markets. Because news of the latest layoffs emerged after regular trading ended, that gain cannot be attributed to investors reacting to the job cuts.
Early Thursday trading also looked promising. Amazon shares were around $260.20 in premarket trading, approximately 0.11% higher.
For investors, the latest layoffs reinforce Amazon’s strategy. The company is making it a priority to cut jobs and simplify parts of its traditional business while committing large amounts of capital to AI and cloud infrastructure.
