Amazon announced Tuesday that it plans to cut 14,000 corporate jobs as part of a broader effort to become leaner in an era shaped by AI.

Aeternum amid layoffs in the division and even deeper job cuts across its parent company. The game debuted on PC in 2021 and it landed on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S just over a year ago. "After four years of steady content updates and a major new console release,

One of America’s largest employers is planning major layoffs, according to Reuters, an indication of major shifts coming to the labor market.

Business Insider's reporters walk through the big layoffs at Amazon, why the cuts came, and who could be next.

Amazon is set to slash thousands of corporate jobs starting Oct. 28, according to multiple reports. The impending corporate layoffs amount to the largest such job reduction in the company's history, CNBC and Reuters reported, citing anonymous sources.

Amazon is laying off 2,303 Washington-based employees, with 1,887 in Seattle alone. It's a move projected to deal a multimillion-dollar blow to the city’s tax revenues.

On social media and elsewhere, impacted employees and others reacted to Amazon's decision to cut 14,000 corporate and tech workers across numerous divisions.

One chart shows how Amazon's workforce surged during the pandemic and Great Resignation. The new corporate layoffs are a small share of its employees.

The move comes amid similar cuts at Meta and Applied Materials, signaling a broader tech industry shift toward automation and AI investment.