Amazon to cut nearly 1,000 white-collar jobs across stores division and other units: report

Amazon is cutting fewer than 1,000 white-collar jobs, mainly in its stores division, which oversees the company’s main e-commerce website, according to Reuters.

The reported cuts come as Amazon wraps up its October Prime Big Deal Days sales event, which ran Tuesday and Wednesday.

The downsizing follows a series of larger layoffs totaling roughly 30,000 jobs that began last year and continued into January.

A person familiar with the matter told Reuters that the latest round of layoffs would affect fewer than 1,000 employees.

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Business Insider was the first to report the latest layoffs.

Internal Slack messages reviewed by Reuters and shared by affected Amazon employees suggest the cuts will affect multiple divisions across the company.

Customer service and selling partner services are expected to be affected, along with other units across the tech giant.

Employees in the U.S., India and the United Kingdom are reportedly among those affected.

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“We’ve adjusted parts of our Stores business because we believe this structure will better enable us to deliver on our priorities,” an Amazon spokesperson told Reuters.

FOX Business has reached out to Amazon for additional comment.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos previously addressed the company’s broader workforce reductions during an exclusive interview with Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier on “Special Report.”

Bezos said Amazon was in a “very special position” after substantially expanding its workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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He also acknowledged public fears about artificial intelligence’s impact on employment, but said he disagreed with those predicting a more troubling outcome.

Fox News Digital’s Stepheny Price contributed to this report.