Amazon will create 100,000 full-time jobs in the United States with full benefits over the next 18 months, the tech giant announced in a statement Thursday.
The company says the positions are for workers across the country and across all skill and experience levels. Most of the positions will be at fulfillment centers, including new ones under construction in California, Florida, New Jersey and Texas.
"Innovation is one of our guiding principles at Amazon, and it’s created hundreds of thousands of American jobs," said Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos in a statement. "These jobs are not just in our Seattle headquarters or in Silicon Valley—they’re in our customer service network, fulfillment centers and other facilities in local communities throughout the country."
Amazon has quickly ramped up its workforce over the last few years, as it pushes to open up more fulfillment centers to get packages out to its customers more quickly. In 2011, Amazon had 30,000 U.S. employees. At the end of last year, it employed 180,000 people.
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Minimum wage fulfillment center jobs, where the working conditions are equal to a sweat shop is nothing to brag about.
ReplyDeleteThere is one in the Allentown PA area, and in the summertime there is an ambulance in the parking lot all day waiting for them to drop and haul them off to the ER for heat exhaustion. This is factually true.
Making billions on the backs of his impoverished employees.
And twice those numbers will be without their jobs as a result.
ReplyDeleteYeah and by doing this by putting out of business the small sellers on the site.. there are federal investigations and thousands of consumer protection complaints about their
ReplyDeletePractices.. watch they are setting up their online monopoly
Monopoly
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