Amazon to Hire 100,000 Employees in US, Canada

   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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