Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division

Re:Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division by hippo22 on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @08:19AM (#45731847)

I’ve heard multiple numbers for this layoff from unofficial sources. Does anyone think Amazon was trying to identify a leak by letting internal parties know about the layoffs with slightly different details?

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Re:Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division by sangel on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @08:28AM (#45731950)

My totally uneducated guess is that they leak exaggerated numbers on purpose to make the real numbers look less bad in comparison. The idea being that a few days before the official news everyone is talking about a potential 30 or 40K people layoff. Then, when the official news come out and state that they are laying off 14K people, it sounds less dramatic (in relative terms). This makes people (who are not affected by this) to feel like the news were overblown and are not as significant.

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Re:Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division by _fizz_buzz_ on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @08:33AM (#45731990)

Or it could have been internal politics. Amazon top management set the goal to cut 30k and after internal discussions with lower management they come up with 14k positions that can actually be cut.

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Re:Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division by gdulli on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @10:40AM (#45733498)

Leaks are intentional. There's a reason they always happen and always in the same way.

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Re:Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division by mv4 on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @08:25AM (#45731908)

are you talking about the difference is size (15,000 vs 30,000) and affected orgs?

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