Key Takeaways
- Amazon has laid off 660 employees across nine NYC offices
- Layoffs effective November 8, 2025, disclosed via WARN dashboard
- Part of ongoing restructuring to streamline operations and align with long-term goals
- CEO Andy Jassy says cuts are driven by cultural reasons, not financial or AI factors
Amazon has eliminated 660 positions across nine offices in New York City, according to filings on the state’s WARN dashboard. This comes after the company recently cut around 14,000 corporate roles, marking its largest workforce reduction since the pandemic.
NYC Layoff Locations and Details
The recent job cuts affected employees throughout Manhattan, including sites on 7th Avenue, 10th Avenue, and 34th Street. The layoffs became effective on November 8, 2025, and were disclosed in compliance with New York labor laws requiring advance notice for mass job cuts.
Amazon’s Official Statement
An Amazon spokesperson confirmed to USA Today that these job cuts are part of the company’s restructuring plan aimed at improving efficiency and aligning teams with long-term goals. The company has not specified which departments were impacted, though it’s speculated that corporate roles were affected.
CEO Andy Jassy Explains the Reasoning
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy recently clarified that the company’s substantial job cuts are not financially motivated or driven by AI implementation. Instead, he attributes the workforce reductions to cultural factors within the rapidly expanding organization.
“The announcement that we made a few days ago was not really financially driven, and it’s not even really AI-driven, not right now at least,” Jassy said during the company’s quarterly earnings call. “It really — it’s culture.”
“And if you grow as fast as we did for several years, the size of businesses, the number of people, the number of locations, the types of businesses you’re in, you end up with a lot more people than what you had before, and you end up with a lot more layers,” Jassy explained.
“And when that happens, Sometimes, without realizing it, you can weaken the ownership of the people that you have who are doing the actual work,” he continued. “And it can lead to slowing you down.”
