(MENAFN) Amazon is preparing to lay off approximately 30,000 corporate employees beginning Tuesday, according to local media reports on Monday, marking one of the tech giant’s largest workforce reductions in recent years.

Emails notifying affected staff are expected to begin rolling out Tuesday morning, the reports said. The move will impact close to 10 percent of Amazon’s corporate workforce.

The e-commerce and cloud computing giant, the second-largest private employer in the U.S., currently has 1.54 million employees worldwide, including around 350,000 in corporate roles and the remainder primarily in fulfillment centers.

This latest round of job cuts continues a series of rolling layoffs that began in 2022, which have already cost more than 27,000 Amazon workers their jobs.

Data from Layoffs.fyi, a website that tracks job losses across the tech sector, shows that more than 200 tech firms have dismissed roughly 98,000 employees so far this year. The most severe year for tech layoffs was 2023, when nearly 1,200 companies eliminated over 260,000 positions, according to the same source.

Industry analysts say the rapid adoption of generative AI is driving many of these reductions, as companies restructure to align with new technological demands.

In June, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy signaled that additional job cuts could follow as automation expands across the company. The company, he wrote, “will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs.”

“It's hard to know exactly where this nets out over time, but in the next few years, we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce,” Jassy added.

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