Amazon lays off 14,000 corporate workers, including some in Seattle Monica Nickelsburg October 28, 2025 / 10:26 am

Amazon plans to shrink its corporate workforce by about 14,000 people. The company notified employees across locations, including its Seattle headquarters, of their termination Tuesday.

Amazon did not answer questions about how many of the eliminated roles will be in its home state of Washington. Employees in locations from Sunnyvale to Austin to Seattle announced their layoffs in online forums and message boards.

Several employees speaking to KUOW anonymously said the repeated rounds of layoffs over the past few years have hurt morale, and that they’re increasingly asked to do more with less.

In an email to employees that was also published online , Beth Galetti,

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