Released: September 15, 2020

Amazon to hire 100,000 workers

Source: Hamza Shaban - The Washington Post (Paid Registration)

Amazon said Monday it will hire another 100,000 workers to meet surging demand in the covid-19 era, bolstering an already dramatic expansion of its workforce this year and underscoring the massive shifts in online spending the pandemic has helped fuel.

The latest hiring drive, which includes full- and part-time jobs, is the fourth large campaign the Seattle-based retail giant has initiated this year. All told, they add up to 308,000 positions. By comparison, Amazon said it employed 798,000 Americans at the end of 2019. (Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.)

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