Amazon lays off 150 employees at Northern California offices, exit date by October 20

Amazon is eliminating roughly 150 roles across its Northern California locations, according to official regulatory filings submitted to state labor authorities. The e-commerce and cloud giant filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) with California’s Employment Development Department which details that the job losses include 78 roles at Amazon’s Bush Street location in San Francisco and 70 positions at its Sunnyvale office. All of the designated cuts are permanent, with affected staff scheduled to exit the company by October 20.While the state filings did not outline a formal explanation for the specific Bay Area cuts, company spokesperson Brad Glasser noted that internal teams routinely evaluate operational configurations to confirm they align with core milestones, as per a report by Kron4, the Bay Area's local news station.“As part of these reviews, teams sometimes determine that certain roles are no longer necessary.