As staff continue to be tested as a precaution, Amazon says, a union calls for the site's closure.

Amazon said on Wednesday it was cutting 16,000 jobs worldwide in the second major round of layoffs at the company in three months, as it restructures after pandemic-era over-hiring and expands the adoption of artificial intelligence tools.

Amazon is eliminating 16,000 positions, company officials said Wednesday, just months after announcing job cuts affecting 14,000 roles in October. This new round of layoffs was a way to "strengthen our organization by reducing layers,

Amazon is awaiting planning permission to build four data centre buildings in Oxfordshire.

The e-commerce giant appears to have inadvertently tipped off some employees to layoffs planned for Wednesday, Jan. 28, by sending an errant email.

Amazon sent a notice out to staffers in an apparent error acknowledging "organizational changes" at the company.

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