Dozens of Amazon staffers to be axed in latest employment blow to the Bay Area

Amazon is slashing around 150 positions at its Northern California offices.

A total of 70 jobs at the e-commerce giant’s Sunnyvale office and 78 positions at the company’s Bush Street office in San Francisco will be eliminated, according to an August 28 notice filed with the Employment Development Department.

All the affected employees are slated to be out by October 20.

Since October 2025, Amazon has cut roughly 30,000 corporate jobs through two major rounds of layoffs as part of CEO Andy Jassy‘s effort to flatten management structures and reduce bureaucracy.

In June of this year, Amazon engineers had accused the tech giant of pouring billions into AI-fueled data centers while slashing tens of thousands of white-collar jobs.

“It’s been reported that this year, Amazon is spending $200 billion on capital, with most of it going to data centers and AI,” Patrick Schloesser, a software engineer at Amazon Web Services, told councilmembers at a heated Seattle City Council hearing in June.

Some 135 corporate Amazon employees who worked at Amazon offices in New York City received pink slips in January 2026, according to a state Department of Labor filing. Another 165 Amazon workers in New York were axed.

Meanwhile, California-based Uber also announced a major organizational restructuring Wednesday that included the elimination of approximately 3,300 corporate roles — representing roughly 10% of its 36,600-person global staff.

The job cuts primarily target corporate and management ranks by trimming management positions by 20%, cutting “micro-teams” with few direct reports, and ending full remote work for most employees in favor of primary operational hubs.

Drivers and couriers on the platform are classified as independent contractors rather than corporate employees and are entirely unaffected by the layoffs.

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