The Brief

Amazon is planning to cut about 15% of its human resources staff with potentially more layoffs in other departments.

Fortune reported that Amazon’s human resources division—known as PXT or the People eXperience Technology team—will be impacted by the job cuts. The exact number of employees losing their jobs hasn’t been disclosed.

Amazon’s PXT division has over 10,000 employees, including a large recruiting team, technology staff and other HR positions.

What’s behind the Amazon layoffs?

Why you should care:

Amazon’s latest round of layoffs come as the organization seeks ways to reduce employee costs while investing in AI products and infrastructure for company and use and to sell to consumers.

According to Fortune, Amazon plans to spend roughly $100 billion in capit

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