NEW YORK -- Amazon plans to lay off as many as 30,000 corporate employees, beginning Tuesday, reports say.

The cuts would total nearly 10% of the company's corporate jobs, as advances in artificial intelligence stoke fears about the white-collar workforce and the U.S. labor market shows signs of weakening.

FILE - This Sept. 6, 2012, file photo, shows the Amazon logo. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

Reuters was the first to report the job cuts. CNN has reached out to Amazon for comment.

Amazon has over 350,000 corporate employees, according to a 2024 survey filed to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

In June, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in a blog post to employees that efficiency gains from artificial intelligence would allow the company to eventually have a reduced human

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