Amazon layoffs include more than 2,000 jobs in Seattle area

The impacts of Amazon’s latest mass layoffs are starting to come into focus for the Seattle area, while other local companies also cut jobs.

About 2,200 employees in Washington state are losing their jobs, according to a state filing, as part of the 16,000 person layoff Amazon announced last week.

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Amazon’s latest layoffs hit software engineers the hardest. Hundreds of coders in the Seattle area are being cut.

Reductions in force have become habitual in the tech industry over the past few years. Andy Challenger, of the layoff consulting firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas, doesn’t see that changing anytime soon.

“ I think there probably will be continued layoff activity, at least for the next quarter or two from within tech," Challenger said.

Other tech companies already appear to be drafting off of Amazon’s big layoff announcement.

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T-Mobile cut nearly 400 jobs this week. That’s on top of more than 300 employees Meta laid off earlier this month.

Tech sector layoffs are being pointed to as a major factor in the region's unemployment rate, 5.1% in November for the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue area. That's higher than the national unemployment rate of 4.5% at the time.

The recent layoffs also come after the region saw a dip in jobs over 2025. As KUOW previously reported, Seattle usually has a net gain of around 40,000 jobs each year, however, 2025 stands out with a net loss of about 13,000 jobs. More than half came from the information sector, according to information from the Puget Sound Regional Council (which covers King, Kitsap, Pierce, and Snohomish counties).