Amazon is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs as the company pares expenses and compensates for overhiring during the peak demand of the pandemic, according to three people familiar with the matter.

The figure represents a small percentage of Amazon's 1.55 million total employees, but almost 10 per cent of its roughly 350,000 corporate employees.

This would mark Amazon's largest job cut since late 2022, when it started to eliminate about 27,000 positions.

An Amazon spokesperson declined to comment. Amazon has been trimming smaller numbers of jobs over the past two years across multiple divisions, including devices, communications and podcasting.

The cuts beginning this week may affect a variety of divisions, including human resources, known as People Experience and Technol

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