India, Feb. 4 -- The latest Amazon job cuts in 2026 mark one of the biggest Amazon corporate layoffs in recent years, highlighting how the company is reshaping its workforce for the AI era. Amazon, in late January 2026, reported a second significant wave of layoffs, with 16,000 corporate positions across the world, as part of overall organisational realignment. It represents a second massive layoff round in a matter of months, a move that will see the total job cuts approach 30,000 since the end of 2025, one of the largest restructuring campaigns in the company in history.

The current wave of layoffs, compared to previous ones, which were mostly viewed as ways of reducing costs, is an indication of a more thorough redesign of how work is...