India, Nov. 3 -- Ecommerce giant Amazon laid off upto 1,500 employees in India over the last week as part of its ongoing global restructuring exercise, sources told Inc42.

Sources said that although the number of jobs impacted may have been slightly higher than 1000, however the etailer will not furlough more employees this year.

Overall, the number of employees being impacted by the exercise in India may go to up to 1500 and will impact mid-senior and senior positions, the sources added.

Layoffs have happened at Amazon's Chennai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru offices, with Prime Video, people experience and tech/ human resources, Q&A devices, retail stores and AWS verticals hit the hardest.

"In some verticals entire teams have been laid of...