Several Departments Cut! Cross-Border Sellers Scale Back Offices as Amazon Reshapes Its Seattle Footprint

Cross-border e-commerce sellers are proactively reducing their office space. Businesses in Shenzhen’s Futian, Nanshan, and Bantian areas are moving warehousing and production to Tangxia and Fenggang in Dongguan, or leaving office buildings for smaller studios and online collaboration to reduce fixed costs. Amazon also plans to give up the lease on an office building in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. Its local workforce has fallen from a peak of 60,000 in 2020 to fewer than 50,000. Industry insider Zhou Ping said that adjusting office space reflects a fundamental shift in how people in the sector think. Leaner workplaces do not mean giving up on growth; they free up funds for growth-driving areas such as product development, overseas warehouse inventory, and influencer marketing.