Amazon.com, Inc. Layoff — January 2026
SOURCEOFFICIAL FILINGCalifornia Employment Development Department· filed October 28, 2025View the filing ↗
What we know
Location: Colorado Avenue Santa Monica, CA · 39 locations (Los Angeles County).
A WARN notice for this layoff is recorded on October 28, 2025.
Disclosed through an official WARN filing with the CA state workforce agency.
Summary
Amazon.com Inc. has planned its largest-ever corporate job cuts, intending to eliminate as many as 30,000 positions, primarily affecting non-frontline corporate roles such as technology, human resources, and administrative functions. The cuts would represent about 10% of Amazon's corporate workforce and are aimed at reducing costs and addressing over-hiring in certain divisions after rapid pandemic-era expansion. Frontline warehouse and delivery workers are reportedly not expected to be affected. Notifications to affected employees are expected to begin soon, with severance including pay continuation, benefits, and outplacement support; further details may be provided in the company's upcoming quarterly earnings report.
Amazon.com, Inc. disclosed this layoff in an official WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) notice recorded by the CA state workforce agency on October 28, 2025. The notice covers 1,496 employees in Colorado Avenue Santa Monica, CA (Los Angeles County), with the layoff effective January 26, 2026.
The state lists each affected employee separately by work location, so this filing spans 23 CA communities: Aventine San Diego, Bush St San Francisco, Camino San Bernardo San Diego, Colorado Avenue Santa Monica, Culver City, Discovery Way Sunnyvale, Eleventh Ave Sunnyvale, Embarcadero Center San Francisco, Enterprise Way Sunnyvale, Floor San Francisco, Great America Pkwy Santa Clara, Irvine, La Jolla Village San Diego, Lytton Ave Palo Alto, Market St San Francisco, Otay Mesa Rd San Diego, Otay Mesa Road San Diego, Palo Alto, San Diego, Santa Clara, Santa Monica, Sutter San Francisco, University Ave Palo Alto.
That is roughly 0.1% of the 1,551,000 people Amazon.com, Inc. employs.
LayoffTalk has tracked 102 layoff events at Amazon.com, Inc. since January 2023, including 18,317 jobs documented in official WARN filings, with 68 additional events known from news reporting.
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