Amazon Blamed AI for 30,000 Layoffs. Its Workforce Grew by 20,000 Anyway.
Amazon wants you picturing a robot walking your coworker to the parking lot with a cardboard box. That’s not really what happened. Since October 2025, Amazon has cut roughly 30,000 corporate jobs in two waves — 14,000 last fall, another 16,000 in January. CEO Andy Jassy told employees back in a June 2025 memo that …