Amazon to Lay Off 1,200 Employees in Spain Amid Global Workforce Restructuring

Amazon adjusts its workforce, now in Spain. The U.S. e-commerce giant has launched a collective layoff process, which would affect up to 1,200 workers at its corporate offices in the country, located in Madrid and Barcelona.

The multinational, which has announced this week a global adjustment that will affect 14,000 of its corporate workforce, has opened in Spain two redundancy plans in the companies Amazon Digital Spain, in Madrid, and Amazon Spain Service, in Barcelona, as reported by Europa Press.

This operation would have no impact on Amazon’s operations at national level or in other Spanish cities. The Spanish subsidiary of the U.S. company has a total of 28,000 workers.

Amazon achieved a profit of $21 billion in the third quarter of 2025, an improvement of 38.2% compared to 2024

Amazon announced last Tuesday a reduction of approximately 14,000 of its corporate workforce, those workers who perform administrative and office work, a lower figure than that reported on Monday in several media, which raised to about 30,000 the affected positions.

The global workforce of the U.S. giant is estimated at around 1.5 million people, of which some 350,000 perform corporate tasks.

This measure, communicated by Beth Galetti, senior vice president of people experience and technology at Amazon, aims to “maintain an agile and appropriate structure, reducing bureaucracy, eliminating layers and redirecting resources to ensure investment in the company’s big bets to respond to current and future customer needs”.

An announcement of global job cuts comes after the presentation of third quarter results, where Amazon achieved a net profit of $21.18 billion, representing an improvement of 38.2% over the result scored by the multinational between July and September last year.

Turnover in the quarter reached $180.169 billion, 13.4% more than in the same period last year, with a 9.6% growth in product sales, up to $74.74 billion, and 16.3% growth in services sales, to $106.11 billion.