𝙰𝚖𝚊𝚣𝚘𝚗'𝚜 𝙴𝚕𝚟𝚎𝚜: 𝙴-𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚎 𝙶𝚒𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝙷𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚜 𝟷𝟻𝟶,𝟶𝟶𝟶 𝚂𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝚆𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚎𝚛𝚜
At the end of last year Amazon employed almost 1.3 million people, with roughly 950,000 employees in the US alone. That means that roughly 1 in every 150 American workers gets a paycheck from Jeff Bezos and co..
During the holiday period, that number goes up even more.
Amazon announced it will take on 150,000 seasonal employees to help fulfill the demand of the final months of the year.
That 150,000 is not the biggest seasonal hiring Amazon has ever done, but for context it's essentially the equivalent of hiring the entire workforce of Nike... twice.
Most of the roles are in Amazon's supply chain; delivery, warehouse work and fulfillment. Walmart plans to hire a similar number and Target needs 100,000. Hiring so many people, when the labor market is hot and supply chains are already creaking, might not be as easy as it used to be.
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