Oct 28 (Reuters) - Amazon ( AMZN ) said on Tuesday it

will reduce its corporate workforce by about 14,000 roles, as

the tech giant cuts down on operational layers to limit costs

amid ballooning investments in artificial intelligence.

The company had about 1.56 million full-time and

part-time employees at the end of last year. Amazon's ( AMZN ) corporate

workforce includes roughly 350,000 employees.

Reuters first reported on Monday that Amazon ( AMZN ) is planning to

cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning on Tuesday, as

the company compensates for over-hiring during the peak demand

of the pandemic.

Amazon ( AMZN ) has been restructuring its workforce across multiple

divisions in recent months, with piecemeal job cuts across its

books, devices and services unit, as well as its Wondery podcast

division.

CEO Andy Jassy said in June growing adoption of

generative AI tools would reduce total corporate workforce at

the e-commerce giant in the next few years.

Corporations are increasingly using AI to write code for

their software and adopting AI agents to automate routine tasks,

as they look to save costs and cut reliance on people.