Amazon is cutting many positions at its headquarters and global operations, a move that comes after several years of significant development.

The cuts were first revealed by the Seattle Times, which said the actions are centered around streamlining the association’s purchaser retail business.

Amazon said it is working to offer affected staff new parts.

It said it expects “small reductions in a couple of places and aggressive hiring in many others”.

Amazon, which records thousands of employment opportunities on its site, has expanded rapidly as of late, both through skyrocketing sales and acquisitions of companies, for example, merchant Whole Foods.

The company announced about $3bn (£2.2bn) in profit on nearly $178bn in sales last year.

Its final quarter sales ascended by 38% to hit a quarterly record of $60.5bn, while profits for the three-month time frame dramatically increased to $1.9bn, compared with $749m in the last three months of 2016.

The figures were helped by a tax advantage of about $789m related to the better and brighter US tax law.

Amazon checked more than 560,000 full and part-time specialists worldwide at the finish of December, an expansion of over 65% from the earlier year.

The association’s site demonstrates many of the new positions answer to Amazon Web Services, the association’s profitable distributed computing division.

The firm is also building up units concentrated on the company’s Alexa robot and different gadgets.

Past consolidations at the company have prompted lay-offs in a few areas.

Last year, Amazon shut Diapers.com and different destinations operated by Quidsi, which it announced a deal to acquire in 2010 for about $500m. That prompted more than 260 lay-offs in New Jersey.