Amazon has once again announced a fresh round of layoffs, following a similar practice earlier in 2025. This time, however, the layoffs target the Human Resource teams (HR) as the company integrates AI deeper into its systems. The news, first shared by Fortune, cites sources that indicate that the e-commerce and cloud giant plans to eliminate as much as 15% of roles within its global HR organisation, which is known internally as the People eXperience Technology (PTX) team.
The PTX team, which oversees all employee-related technology and experiences and is responsible for employing over 10,000 staff worldwide, is facing layoffs as part of Amazon’s broader push to reduce costs and improve efficiency across the company. While the HR department is the primary target, the job cuts are also anticipated to impact other departments within Amazon’s core consumer business.
Amazon lays off more people due to AI
It may not come across as surprising that Amazon’s new wave of layoffs is once again happening due to AI. Amazon is investing heavily in AI products and infrastructure – a process that makes it necessary for the company to implement cost reductions in its workforce to absorb ‘capital expenditures.’
CEO Andy Jassy had previously outlined plans to spend over $100 billion in capital expenditures in 2025, all of it dedicated to building AI data centers and cloud computing facilities for both internal use and customer sales.
With the upcoming layoff round, Amazon is one of the many tech firms that have axed thousands of corporate employees over the last few years. The recent cuts follow a period between late 2022 and 2023, during which CEO Andy Jassy authorised at least 27,000 corporate job eliminations across the company. It wasn’t Amazon that let go of employees – Meta and Google were also involved in the practice.
Amazon CEO says AI is necessary
CEO Jassy has publicly emphasised the urgency of AI adoption, urging employees in a recent company memo to ‘embrace this change.’ He said that the AI integration would “reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company.”
