The layoffs mark the second round of mass cuts at Amazon since last October, when the company laid off roughly 14,000 employees across its corporate workforce.

Amazon dropped a bombshell on Wednesday, announcing plans to cut roughly 16,000 jobs across the company. The tech giant says the move is all about stripping away red tape and making the company move faster,

Amazon is cutting approximately 16,000 corporate jobs in its second mass layoff since October 2025. In an announcement posted by Beth Galetti, Amazon’s Senior Vice President of People Experience and Technology,

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Amazon’s largest fulfillment center in Arkansas, known as LIT1, has been shut down indefinitely after engineers found serious structural design errors related to earthquake safety. The five-story, 3.6 million-square-foot facility at the Port of Little Rock first opened in 2021 and quickly became a centerpiece of the company’s statewide logistics network.