STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Amazon will begin another round of layoffs next week as it continues its pursuit of 30,000 job cuts, Reuters reported Friday.
The news follows an October round of layoffs that saw 14,000 white-collar employees notified of their job loss, also first reported by Reuters.
Amazon did not respond to an Advance/SILive.com request for comment by the time of publication, and declined comment to Reuters.
While most of the tech giant’s 1.5 million employees work in warehouses and fulfillment centers like the giant developments on Staten Island’s West Shore, the corporate job cuts represent about a 10% trim of Amazon’s corporate work force.
The company has blamed the growth of artificial intelligence for the layoffs, with Senior Vice President Beth Galetti writing in an October corporate letter that the “generation of AI is the most transformative technology we’ve seen since the Internet, and it’s enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before.”
The cuts reported by Reuters Friday are expected to impact the company’s Amazon Web Services, retail, Prime Video and human resources employees.
Layoffs.fyi, a website that tracks job cuts in the tech industry, reported nearly 124,000 job losses last year across 269 companies.