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Amazon India to lay off 800-1,000 amid global restructuring

Financial Express Bengaluru

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October 29, 2025

To be carried out in three phases over the next three days

- ANEES HUSSAIN

AMAZON INDIA IS set to lay off between 800 and _ 1,000 employees as part of a global restructuring, according to sources familiarwith the matter.

The downsizing is part of a larger, global workforce reduction of 14,000 corporate roles announced by Amazon, on Tuesday.

Sources told FE that the notifications in India are planned to be carried out in three phases over the next three days.

Internal sources at the company’s People Experience and Technology (PXT) and Prime Video operations teams in Bengaluru, confirmed receiving emails informing them of being laid off.

When contacted for this story, Amazon India did not provide a comment on the specific numbers for the India layoffs or the impacted teams.

The global workforce reduction was confirmed in a company-wide memo by Beth Galetti, senior vice president of People Experience and Technology on Tuesday.

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