Amazon denies reports of 14,000 layoffs planned for May: ‘…not based in fact’

Amazon has denied several media reports of a planned firing of 14,000 employees in May.

On Wednesday, a report went viral claiming that after laying off 16,000 employees in January, the company is going for another round of mass layoffs which will see 14,000 of its employees losing their jobs. It was first reported on the job forum Blind and then taken up by Lei Feng, a Chinese-language tech portal.