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The online retail giant is expected to try and find staff roles at other sites

It is the largest layoff in the company's history

It is understood the job losses will include Europe, but Amazon has not given details of how each country, including Ireland, will be affected. Amazon employs around 5,000 people in Ireland.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the company planned to eliminate over 18,000 people, thousands more than originally expected. Read on for details:

The online retail firm said roles that will be affected the most include those across its stores, such as Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go, as well as its human resources division

The news came from a memo sent by Chief Executive Officer at Amazon Andy Jassy, as the retail giant will slash thousands of job around the world including in Europe

E-commerce giant Amazon has announced it will lay off 18,000 people. CEO Andy Jassy says the cuts will mostly affect the human resources teams and the Amazon Stores operations, and will represent around 6 percent of the company's 300,000 corporate workforce. This comes after similar layoff plans took place at…

CEO Andy Jassy said the move was about ‘finding a way to do more for customers at a lower cost’

Last year it was reported that the tech giant was planning to cut 10,000 jobs with then-Tanaiste Leo Vardakar stating no job losses were anticipated for Ireland