April 14, 2020
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The online shopping surge due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is driving Amazon to hire on another 75,000 employees less than a month after it announced it was hiring on 100,000 workers.
The demand for more employees is directly related to consumers hitting Amazon.com for items and products given mandates to stay at home during the coronavirus outbreak.
The announcement, made on the e-commerce giant’s blog, said the additional hiring will mean much bigger compensation spend — about $500 million — for the time of the pandemic outbreak.
Amazon’s workforce numbered just under 800,000 at the close of 2019. It has called the current demand for grocery items “unprecedented.”
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Topics: Top 100 Retail, Staffing and Training, Coronavirus / COVID-19, Retail – General, Delivery, Supply Chain, Consumer Behavior, E-commerce, Merchandising
Companies: Amazon