09:07 AM EDT, 10/28/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Amazon.com ( AMZN ) disclosed plans on Tuesday to lay off 14,000 corporate employees as part of the e-commerce giant's ongoing efforts to streamline the organization and increase efficiency.

In a blog post, Senior Vice President of People Experience and Technology Beth Galetti said the job cuts are being carried out to help the company become leaner, reduce layers and bureaucracy and shift resources to "ensure we're investing in our biggest bets."

"This generation of (artificial intelligence) is the most transformative technology we've seen since the internet, and it's enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before," according to Galetti. "We're convinced that we need to be organized more leanly, with fewer layers and more ownership, to move as quickly as possible for our customers and business."

Galetti indicated that the technology giant aims to keep hiring in key strategic areas, while seeking additional ways to "remove layers, increase ownership and realize efficiency gains." Amazon's ( AMZN ) shares were up 0.8% in the most recent premarket activity.

In June, Amazon ( AMZN ) Chief Executive Andy Jassy said he expected the company's corporate workforce to be reduced in the "next few years," as it sees "efficiency gains" from implementing and using generative artificial intelligence across the organization. "We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs," Jassy said at the time.

In February, Jassy told analysts during an earnings call that Amazon ( AMZN ) intends to spend most of its $100 billion in planned 2025 capital expenditures on AI for its Amazon Web Services cloud platform.

In March 2023, Amazon ( AMZN ) outlined plans to lay off about 9,000 employees on top of the 18,000 role reductions it announced at the start of that year.

Amazon ( AMZN ) is scheduled to release its latest quarterly results after the markets close Thursday.