Amazon has announced plans to cut 14,000 of its 350,000 corporate jobs and replace those roles with AI. Others who work at the retail giant claim the actual layoffs will be closer to 30,000 people.

MobileSyrup has reached out to see if any of the layoffs will impact Canadians, but did not receive a response before publication. Amazon also declined to comment to several other publications that covered the layoffs.

Amazon’s press release regarding the layoffs says that most affected personnel will be given 90 days’ notice to make sure they have time to find a new job internally, and its recruiting teams are now instructed to focus on internal hires. That said, it doesn’t seem like it will have space to rehire all these people.

After speaking with anonymous Amazon workers, Reuters repo

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