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# Amazon to layoff thousands of its employees this week
- URL: https://www.techloy.com/amazon-to-layoff-thousands-of-its-employees-this-week/
- Published: 2022-11-14T18:09:17.000Z
- Updated: 2022-11-14T18:09:17.000Z
- Author: Techloy
- Tags: / News, Amazon, Tech Layoffs

E-commerce giant Amazon is planning to lay off around 10,000 employees in corporate and technology roles starting this week, according to [*The New York Times*](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/technology/amazon-layoffs.html?searchResultPosition=2) and [*The Wall Street Journal*](https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-set-to-lay-off-thousands-of-corporate-workers-11668447887?mod=hp%5Flead%5Fpos1), in what could be the largest in the company's history.

Amazon had reported 798,000 employees at the end of 2019 but had 1.6 million full- and part-time employees as of December 2021, so the reported layoffs would represent less than 1% of Amazon’s global workforce and 3% of its corporate employees, according to *Techloy* analysis.

The report follows [massive reductions in headcount at Twitter, Meta, and other tech firms](https://www.techloy.com/a-wave-of-massive-layoffs-rattle-the-global-technology-industry/) in the past few weeks, in a bid to rein in costs amid an economic downturn and a worsening economic outlook.

The reported layoff would likely impact Amazon’s devices organization, retail division and human resources.