New Delhi, April 8 -- Amazon has denied several media reports of a planned firing of 14,000 employees in May.

On Wednesday, a report went viral claiming that after laying off 16,000 employees in January, the company is going for another round of mass layoffs which will see 14,000 of its employees losing their jobs. It was first reported on the job forum Blind and then taken up by Lei Feng, a Chinese-language tech portal.

Mint reached out to Amazon for a response, to which the company said, "These reports are false and not based in fact."

The post on Blind claimed that this information was from an insider who said that these job cuts will come with a "lot of restructuring", and that information about the same is being closely guarded by...