Amazon is cutting fewer than 1,000 white-collar jobs, mainly in its stores division, as the company finishes another big October sales event and keeps reshaping its workforce.
Fox Business reports that Amazon is eliminating fewer than 1,000 white-collar positions, with the bulk landing in the stores unit that runs the company’s main e-commerce site.
Business Insider first flagged the latest round. Reuters then detailed the scope after reviewing internal Slack messages shared by affected workers and speaking with a person familiar with the matter.
Those messages show the cuts reach beyond a single team. Multiple parts of the company are involved, even as the stores division takes the heaviest hit.
Workers in the United States, India, and the United Kingdom are among those affected. Exact headcounts by country were not released.
The timing lines up with the end of Amazon’s October Prime Big Deal Days event, which ran Tuesday and Wednesday. The company is moving on cost and structure right as that sales push wraps.
Retail rivals keep pressing the same shoppers. Walmart’s longer fall deals event shows how hard big chains fight for every cart during peak discount windows.
An Amazon spokesperson told Reuters the company is not hiding the reason for the change in stores.
"We've adjusted parts of our Stores business because we believe this structure will better enable us to deliver on our priorities,"
That is a plain business claim: rearrange the org chart so the company can hit its own targets. No promise was offered that every role stays frozen in place.
FOX Business sought more comment from Amazon beyond the Reuters statement. No additional public reply appears in the available account.
This round is smaller than what came before. Amazon carried out larger layoffs totaling roughly 30,000 jobs that began last year and continued into January.
Private firms that ballooned during the pandemic have spent the years since pulling back. Headcount that made sense in a locked-down surge does not always fit a normal market.
Amazon still sells almost everything through that same stores machine, from everyday goods to novelty backyard gear such as a sci-fi bubble tent tiny home listed for $3,500.
Shoppers also saw a near-identical pitch framed as a Jetsons-style bubble tent tiny home on the same marketplace. The catalog stays wide even while corporate teams get trimmed.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos addressed the broader reductions earlier in an exclusive interview with Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier on “Special Report.”
Bezos said the company sat in a “very special position” after it substantially expanded its workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic. He also spoke to public fears that artificial intelligence will wipe out jobs, and he rejected the darker forecasts.
Tech platforms keep colliding over automation and checkout tools. Meta’s Muse AI store-browsing bot ran into Amazon’s own blocks, another sign that retailers police how software moves through their aisles.
Marketplace scale brings other headaches too. Consumer safety stories, including a large Amazon heated-blanket recall after burn injuries, show how product risk travels with high volume.
None of that erases the human cost for the white-collar staff losing seats in this round. Fewer than 1,000 roles is still real paychecks in three countries.
It is also a fraction of the roughly 30,000 jobs already cut in the prior wave. The company is still choosing structure over frozen headcount.
Efficient firms cut when the org chart stops serving customers and shareholders. Bloated ones wait for someone else to pay the bill.