Andy is trying to reset the Amazon culture by getting rid of more layers of middle management.
CEO of Amazon Tuesday described At the company’s annual conference for third -party sellers, it wanted to eliminate the bureaucracy to help Amazon grow and invent more faster. The bureaucracy is not compatible with “startup” and “business organizations”, but according to, it is “really easy to collect”.
Jesse said in the program, “I would say that the bureaucracy is really the onset and anathem for business organizations.” “As you grow up, bureaucracy is really easy to collect, many bureaucracy you can’t see.”
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Similar Is written In his latest annual shareholder letter in April, Amazon should try to “work as the world’s largest start” by solving real consumer problems, reducing bureaucracy and taking risks.
Jessie’s latest comments on Tuesday are following efforts to flatter Amazon’s organization and eliminate extra layers.
In September 2024, Jesi Asked every team To minimize the number of managers within the company at least 15 %. A leak guideline document in January showed that Amazon asked managers to increase the number of direct reports, to hire new managers, and to take some employees to non -administrative positions.
Managers are now compulsory as direct reports to at least eight team members; Necessary According to the document, in 2017.
Jesi also introduced A to “Bureaucracy mailboxJesse said in the event on Tuesday, “Last year, employees could be replaced to allow employees to email examples of unwanted processes or rules that could be changed to help the company run more efficiently. Within a year, the mailbox received 1,500 emails, resulting in a change in 455 processes.
Amazon CEO Andy Jesi on July 8, 2025. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Getty Images Through
In a November Meeting with all handsJas reiterated that he wants to make changes to middle management to keep the company competitive.
Jesse said at the meeting, “The fact is (the senior leadership team) and I hate the bureaucracy.” “One of the reasons I still have in this company is that it is not a political or bureaucratic place.”
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Similar Took over. In 2021 as the CEO of Amazon, after Bizos. Under his leadership, Amazon left 27,000 corporate employees And it was ordered that employees should return to the office five days a week.
In spite of employees’ complaints and initial shortages of desk, the return mandate for return was implemented On January 2.
Amazon describes it on The stability page That it hires 1.5 million people around the world at the time of writing, from which it becomes The second largest employer In the world
Andy is trying to reset the Amazon culture by getting rid of more layers of middle management.
CEO of Amazon Tuesday described At the company’s annual conference for third -party sellers, it wanted to eliminate the bureaucracy to help Amazon grow and invent more faster. The bureaucracy is not compatible with “startup” and “business organizations”, but according to, it is “really easy to collect”.
Jesse said in the program, “I would say that the bureaucracy is really the onset and anathem for business organizations.” “As you grow up, bureaucracy is really easy to collect, many bureaucracy you can’t see.”
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