February 18, 2026
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The ecommerce giant continues to shed management layers amid massive AI capital investments.
Amazon has been responsible for over half of the roughly 30,000 tech layoffs so far in 2026, according to new research by RationalFX. The foreign exchange comparison site analyzed tech company layoffs from the IT job portal TrueUp.io, as well as reports from TechCrunch, and popular layoff tracking site Layoffs.fyi.
The research showed that Amazon’s late January 2026 decision to lay off 16,000 employees has driven global tech layoffs past the 30,000 mark in under two months.
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February 18, 2026
