Amazon to Hire 100,000 Employees in US, Canada
September 14 2020 - 4:19AM
Dow Jones News
By Ben Otto
Amazon.com Inc. plans to hire 100,000 employees in the United
States and Canada, continuing its recent hiring spree amid a jump
in online shopping.
The U.S. e-commerce giant said Monday that the new full-time and
part-time positions will pay at least $15 an hour and include
benefits and signing bonuses of up to $1,000 in some cities. Amazon
added that hiring for the jobs is underway.
The Seattle-based company also said it would open 100 new
operations buildings this month, including fulfillment centers,
delivery stations, sorting centers and other sites.
Amazon experienced an unprecedented wave of orders this year
after Covid-19 lockdowns pushed millions more people toward online
shopping. The company added 175,000 warehouse workers in March and
April, 125,000 of which Amazon said in May it would keep
permanently. Last week, it announced 33,000 vacancies for corporate
and technology positions.
Including temporary workers that the company describes as
seasonal, Amazon has more than 1 million employees world-wide. Its
total head count in the U.S. without seasonal employees exceeds
600,000, with more than 100,000 of those within corporate
ranks.
Write to Ben Otto at ben.otto@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
September 14, 2020 04:04 ET (08:04 GMT)
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