Amazon (AMZN) is reportedly planning another major headcount reduction as a Washington state agency indicated 2,200 upcoming permanent job cuts in the region.
According to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) from the Washington Employment Security Department, Amazon plans the job separations to begin on April 28 across “various locations in Washington.” The notification also shows 401 positions in the state will be lost due to the closure of one or more facilities.
The latest development adds to the 14,000 global Amazon (AMZN) job cuts in October and last week’s announcement of 16,000 corporate layoffs to “strengthen the organization by reducing layers.”
Despite the aggressive measures to reduce the company’s headcount, CEO Andy Jassy maintains it is not financially or AI-driven, but rather an effort to eliminate duplicate layers.
“You can weaken the ownership of people that you have who are doing the actual work and who own most of the 2-way door decisions,” Jassy said on the company’s third quarter earnings call in October.
“As a leadership team, we are committed to operating like the world’s largest start-up…and that means removing layers,” he added.
Since becoming chief executive of Amazon (AMZN) in 2021, Jassy has eliminated more than 57K corporate positions across multiple rounds of layoffs.