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Amazon announced that it’s laying off workers in its human resources department.

The company is pouring more resources into artificial intelligence while lowering employee costs.

Earlier this year, Amazon cut jobs in its AWS cloud unit.

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?

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