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Amazon plans to lay off 161 employees in East Palo Alto and Mountain View this spring as part of another round of cuts that will affect hundreds of corporate jobs across the Bay Area, state filings show.
The layoffs are expected to become effective on April 28, according to California Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Acts. Approximately 89 employees will be impacted at the facility on University Avenue in East Palo Alto, and another 72 on San Antonio Road in Mountain View.
Many of the affected employees are engineers, business developers and other department managers, WARN documents show. More than a third of affected positions between the two cities — 73 employees — are software development engineers. None of them belong to a union.
According to the WARN documents, the layoffs provide an option for affected employees to internally transfer to other positions.
Other cities in Silicon Valley are bearing the brunt of the layoff news, notably Sunnyvale and Santa Clara. More than 100 employees in San Francisco will also be laid off across two offices downtown, and several hundred more in Southern California will also be impacted, according to the WARN documents.
Last week, Amazon announced that it planned to reduce its corporate staff by 16,000 people nationwide, the second major round of layoffs in the past three months. In November, Amazon cut nearly 200 employees from offices in downtown Palo Alto.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy revealed in a memo last summer that the downsizing trend was in large part due to greater reliance on artificial intelligence.
“It’s hard to know exactly where this nets out over time, but in the next few years, we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company,” Jassy wrote in the June memo.
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