New Delhi, Oct. 29 -- As Amazon started cutting 14,000 jobs, employees were informed that they had been relieved-through text messages.

According to a report by Business Insider, the e-commerce giant sent two messages on Tuesday to inform employees that their jobs had been terminated.

One of the two texts sent by Amazon to employees urged them to check their personal or official emails before reporting to work.

The second text, meanwhile, directed employees to call a help desk in case they hadn't received "an email message about your role".

According to people familiar with the matter, this rather unorthodox strategy of laying off employees was to ensure that people did not show up to work to find that their access badges no longer fu...