TL;DRAmazon has cut more than 57,000 corporate jobs since 2022, about 16% of that workforce, including roughly 16,000 in late January and 14,000 three months before. Laid-off staff have landed in a saturated market where searches that once took four months now stretch to twelve or eighteen. The colleagues who stayed report rising workloads and worsening work-life balance, the deferred cost of a saving booked immediately.
Amazon’s cuts have reached a scale that is hard to absorb. The company has laid off more than 57,000 corporate staff since 2022, around 16% of that workforce, CNBC reports.
The pace has accelerated sharply. Roughly 16,000 people went in late January, three months after more than 14,000 others, the steepest cuts in the company’s history.
What the numbers hide is the aftermath. The people who left and the people who stayed are both struggling, in different ways.
The market they landed in
