Amazon to Hire 3500 New Employees
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many people are buying products online rather than going to a store. It should come as little surprise then that online retail giant Amazon announced plans to hire thousands of workers. What is a little surprising, perhaps, is that the jobs are for work inside an office.
Currently, a substantial number of companies are, and have been, finding ways for their traditional office workers to get their jobs done from home.
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With so many finding a way to make this process work, there has even been a lot of speculation as to how many of these workers will continue to work remotely once the pandemic has cleared.
So, it may seem a little unusual that Amazon is making plans to hire about 3500 people to work in its corporate offices in several cities across the U.S.
However, the company says that these new jobs are part of their plan to be ready to hit the ground running on expansion when people begin to return to the office environment.
“The ability to connect with people, the ability for teams to work together in an ad hoc fashion—you can do it virtually, but it isn’t as spontaneous,” explained Ardine Williams, the company’s Vice President of Workforce Development.
The new Amazon jobs will be in locations including New York, Phoenix, San Diego, Denver, Detroit, and Dallas. While some of the job postings are for immediate openings, the bulk of them will see new hires over a 2 year period.
In New York City, the company spent more than a billion dollars for another 900,000 square feet of office space in Manhattan.
Adding to the million plus workers the online giant currently has, the new positions will include departments such as Alexa, product management, engineering and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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