Amazon is laying off almost 100 Washington-based workers, part of companywide cuts confirmed in early October.
A state regulatory filing from Wednesday disclosed that Amazon was cutting 95 employees in Seattle, Bellevue, Redmond, Sumner and Pasco. Seattle offices bore the brunt, with 67 workers affected. An additional 15 remote-designated employees were also let go.
Amazon spokesperson Brad Glasser confirmed that the layoffs were tied to a wave of workforce reductions reported by Business Insider on Oct. 9.
The cuts included software engineers, product managers and other support staff in the company’s retail — or Stores — business. Management roles in several warehouses were included as well. Amazon confirmed in October that a few hundred employees were affected companywide.
“We’re always looking at our team structures to ensure we’re best set up to move fast as we innovate for customers,” Glasser 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.”
Affected employees were notified between Sept. 8 and Oct. 26, according to the filing. Their termination dates are between Dec. 7 and Jan. 25.
Like other tech companies, Amazon has been no stranger to workforce reductions over the past year. The company had a historic wave of layoffs in October 2025, which saw 14,000 employees cut, followed by 16,000 more in January.
Amazon had much smaller layoffs this year and toward the end of last year. In December, the company let go of 84 employees from its Seattle and Bellevue offices, a little over a month after it shed 14,000 roles. Amazon laid off 121 more Washington-based employees in July, cuts that were unrelated to broader layoffs.
Mass layoffs or business closures usually trigger a filing required by the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN, Act. The federal law requires employers to disclose layoffs and closures based on the scope of job losses relative to the size of the worksite.
Washington state’s relatively new “mini-WARN” law has made the reporting requirements stricter. Employers in Washington now have to disclose terminations and closures when more than 50 employees are affected over the span of 60 days. Because of that, Amazon’s smaller layoffs have triggered more WARN notices recently than they did in the past.
Since the end of last year, Amazon has laid off 4,858 corporate employees in Washington, according to state regulatory filings. All of the cuts have been related to either small, companywide workforce reductions or larger corporate restructuring.
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