Amazon plans to eliminate thousands of white-collar workers as layoffs sweep across the tech industry.
Sources told The New York Times almost 10,000 corporate and technology employees are likely to lose their jobs, which would be the most significant layoffs in the company's history.
The cuts will focus on Amazon's devices division, which includes the voice assistant Alexa, its retail unit, and human resources.
It is understood the number of reductions is still flexible and will likely be carried out team by team instead of in one go as each business completes its plans.
Meta confirmed this week about a broad layoff that hit 11,000 people or around 13 percent of its staff.
Lyft, Stripe, Snap, and other tech companies have also fired employees in recent months.
Amazon representative Brad Glasser refused to comment.
As a result of the pandemic, Amazon had its most profitable era on record, with people flocking to online shopping and businesses rushing to its cloud computing services.
