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AmazonAmazon announced second round cutting 14,000 white-collar jobs from AWS, retail, Prime Video and HR

Amazon announced a second round of massive job cuts as part of its earlier announced goal of laying off 30,000 corporate employees. The latest cuts removed 14,000 white-collar jobs and affected the company's Amazon Web Services (AWS), retail, Prime Video and human resource units.

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Amazon announced 14,000 additional layoffs affecting AWS, retail, Prime Video and HR units

Amazon announced a second round of massive job cuts Friday as part of its earlier announced goal of laying off 30,000 corporate employees. The latest cuts removed 14,000 white-collar jobs and affected the company's Amazon Web Services (AWS), retail, Prime Video and human resource units.

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