Amazon Cuts 95 More Washington Workers as Trim Continues

Amazon is laying off 95 more workers in Washington state, according to a regulatory filing disclosed Wednesday — the latest slice of a corporate trimming campaign that has now removed 4,858 Amazon corporate employees in Washington since the end of last year, per state filings.

The cuts hit five cities: Seattle, Bellevue, Redmond, Sumner and Pasco. Seattle offices took the brunt, with 67 workers affected. Another 15 remote-designated employees lost their jobs, with the remainder spread across the other locations.

Who is being cut?

This isn't a single-function purge. The filing and Amazon's own confirmation show the reductions touch several layers of the company:

• Software engineers and product managers in the retail — or Stores — business
• Other support staff in the same division
• Management roles across several warehouses

For a software engineer or product manager inside Amazon's Stores organization, the practical read is simple: this business unit is still being restructured, and role security there is weaker than the companywide headline numbers suggest.

Amazon spokesperson Brad Glasser confirmed the layoffs tie back to a wave of workforce reductions first reported by Business Insider on Oct. 9. At that time, Amazon said a few hundred employees were affected companywide.

What did Amazon say?

Glasser framed the moves as structural, not a retreat. "We're always looking at our team structures to ensure we're best set up to move fast as we innovate for customers," he said in an emailed statement. "We've adjusted parts of our Stores business because we believe this structure will better enable us to deliver on our priorities."

Read that language closely. Amazon isn't calling this a cost crisis — it's calling it a redesign. For workers, that distinction matters less than the timeline.

How long do affected workers have?

Affected employees were notified between Sept. 8 and Oct. 26, according to the filing. Their termination dates run from Dec. 7 to Jan. 25. That means some workers have roughly two months of runway from notice to exit, while others at the tail end have closer to four.

How does this fit Amazon's bigger layoff picture?

Amazon's cuts over the past year-plus came in two very different sizes. The historic wave arrived in October 2025, when 14,000 employees were cut, followed by another 16,000 in January. Since then, the reductions have shrunk dramatically.

In December, the company let go of 84 employees from its Seattle and Bellevue offices — a little over a month after shedding 14,000 roles. In July, it laid off another 121 Washington-based employees in cuts unrelated to the broader layoffs. This week's 95 brings the pattern into focus: large restructuring waves followed by steady, smaller trims.

Why are we hearing about smaller cuts now?

Part of the answer is disclosure law, not just headcount. Mass layoffs usually trigger filings under the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN, Act, which requires employers to disclose layoffs and closures based on the scope of job losses relative to a worksite's size.

Washington's relatively new "mini-WARN" law tightened that threshold. Employers in the state must now disclose terminations and closures when more than 50 employees are affected over 60 days. That's why Amazon's smaller layoffs are generating more WARN notices than they would have in the past — cuts that once stayed invisible now enter the public record.

If the mini-WARN threshold keeps surfacing filings at this rate, Washington residents should expect continued visibility into Amazon's trimming even if the companywide numbers stay in the hundreds rather than the thousands.