Amazon Tells Thousands of Employees to Relocate or Resign
Source
American Shipper
Post Date
06/23/2025
Amazonsays the move to bring teams together will make them more"effective."
Key Takeaways
? ?Amazon is asking thousands of employees to relocate to its main hubs across the country ?or resign. ? ?One Amazon employee said they were given 30 days to decide, and that they would not receive severance pay if they resigned. ?
Amazon isgiving some employees a choice: relocate or resign.
Bloomberg reportsthat Amazon is ordering thousands of workers on severalU.S. teams to move to main hubs in Seattle, Washington; Arlington, Virginia;and Washington, D.C.
Amazon has 1.56 million full-timeand part-time employees spread across its global business, including 350,000 corporateworkers.
The effort to get some employees to relocatehas been taking place "for more than a year now," as "some teamshave been working to bring their teammates closer together to help them be aseffective as possible," an Amazon spokesperson told Bloomberg.
One Amazon employee shared in the companysinternal messaging platform, in messages viewed by Bloomberg, thattheir manager gave them 30 days to decide whether to relocate or resign. Theyhad 60 days after that to the relocation process or to leave the company?and if they chose the latter, they would not receive severance pay.
The mandate means that some workers will haveto move across the country. Instead of rolling out the requirement through massemails, Amazon is informing employees that they must relocate throughone-on-one meetings and town halls.
Amazon workers already face uncertainty abouttheir jobs being replaced in the next few years by AI. Amazon CEO AndyJassy sent a memo to staff earlier this week that heexpects Amazons workforce to decrease "in the next few years" as AIautomates tasks, prompting concerns from employees about possible layoffs inthe coming years. Amazon is currently using AI in its warehouses to improvedelivery speed and has given its customer service chatbot AI capabilities.
Amazon is sping heavily on AI, and plansto keep investing in the technology. In a quarterly earnings call in February,the company disclosed that it plans to sp about $105 billion in capitalexpiture this year, with most sping going towards AI.
Earlier thisyear, Amazon began requiring employees to work in the office five days a week, leading some to look for other jobs with remote work options.Amazon has laid off more than 27,000 employees since2022 to cut costs.
