Early Wednesday, Amazon announced job cuts as part of a plan to "remove bureaucracy" at the company. Beth Galetti, senior vice president of people experience and technology at Amazon, said on Wednesday it was not planning to make "broad reductions every few months", referring to Amazon's announcement of 14,000 corporate job cuts in October. While the email made clear that the cuts were happening at Amazon, employees had not yet been officially informed. The lay-offs had been expected by Amazon employees for weeks, according to a former worker who asked not be identified. The firm was expected to reach that number of job cuts with another major set of lay-offs this month, followed by further redundancies until the end of May.