Amazon has confirmed fresh job cuts across its Stores division, affecting employees in the UK, US and India as the tech giant continues a prolonged restructuring effort.
The reductions will impact hundreds of employees globally, though only a handful of workers within the UK workforce are understood to be among those affected.
Amazon’s Stores division, which oversees the company’s core online retail operations, is at the centre of the latest round of redundancies.
Despite significant investment in artificial intelligence, the company has made clear the latest cuts are unrelated to that technology push.
“We’re always looking at our team structures to ensure we’re best set up to move fast as we innovate for customers,” said an Amazon spokesperson.
“We’ve adjusted parts of our Stores business because we believe this structure will better enable us to deliver on our priorities,” the spokesperson added.
Amazon described the decision to eliminate roles as a “difficult” one and said it would support affected employees through the transition period.
The latest reductions follow two considerably larger rounds of redundancies, with Amazon cutting around 14,000 corporate jobs in late 2025 and another 16,000 in January.
Those earlier cuts spanned multiple divisions, including Amazon Web Services, as the company worked to reduce management layers and streamline its overall operations.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos previously attributed the company’s job cuts to excessive hiring during the pandemic, when surging online shopping demand prompted rapid workforce expansion across the business.
As consumer demand normalised following the pandemic boom, Amazon found itself carrying a larger workforce than its operations required, Bezos explained in an interview with Fox News.
The fresh redundancies arrive as the broader technology sector continues to shed jobs even while committing billions of dollars to artificial intelligence infrastructure and development.
Oracle stated in a regulatory filing that adopting AI had contributed to its own workforce reductions, while Microsoft and Meta have also cut thousands of jobs alongside increased AI investment.
Amazon has continued to recruit in specialist areas including AI and machine learning, even as it reduces headcount across other parts of the business.
The company has also reportedly approached some former employees about returning to its cloud division, including individuals affected by previous restructuring rounds.
Amazon has maintained throughout this period of restructuring that its goal is to make the business faster and more efficient, rather than responding to any single technology shift or demand downturn.