Amazon is preparing to lay off up to 30000 corporate employees starting Tuesday as it looks to reduce costs after hiring too many people during the pandemic according a report in NDTV. The number of job cuts is small compared to Amazon’s total workforce of about 1.55 million but it represents nearly 10 per cent of its 350000 corporate staff. This would be Amazon’s biggest round of layoffs since late 2022 when around 27000 jobs were cut. Over the past two years the company has been slowly reducing jobs in several areas including its devices communications and podcasting teams. The new round of cuts is expected to affect different departments such as human resources (also called People Experience and Technology or PXT) operations devices and services and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Managers whose teams are affected were reportedly given training on Monday on how to speak with employees about the layoffs. Email notifications informing staff are expected to begin going out on Tuesday morning.