E-commerce giant Amazon is gearing up to handover pink slips to nearly 30,000 of its employees starting this Tuesday. This marks the largest job cuts in the company’s history as the number of employees to be affected has surpassed the previous highest of mass layoffs when 27,000 employees were terminated in 2022.
Though there is no official statement from Amazon on this development so far, reliable sources inside the company have confirmed that the job cuts beginning this week may affect a variety of divisions, including human resources, known as People Experience and Technology or PXT; operations, devices and services; and Amazon Web Services.
Amazon has a global workforce of close to 1.55 Million, but those who are now going to be eliminated will account for nearly 10% of the existing

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