Amazon to lay off 10K employees amid 'largest job cuts' in firm's history

The job cuts are expected in Amazon's devices organization, including the voice-assistant Alexa, as well as in its retail division and in human resources

Multinational tech giant Amazon plans to lay off around 10,000 people in its corporate and technology sectors starting as soon as this week, the New York Times reported.

When executed, this would be the largest job cuts in the company’s history. 

The job cuts are expected in Amazon’s devices organisation, including the voice-assistant Alexa, as well as in its retail division and in human resources, said the report.

Laying off around 10,000 people would actually mean dismissing roughly three per cent of Amazon’s corporate employees and less than one per cent of its global work force of more than 1.5