AMAZON TO HIRE 55,000 PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD

Thu 02 September 2021:

Amazon is on the lookout for new employees. On Wednesday, the business announced plans to hire 55,000 individuals worldwide, with around 40,000 of those positions in the United States.

The job openings vary from technical positions to corporate responsibilities to warehouse duties packing and shipping goods for the online retailer.

During the pandemic, as other companies laid off workers, Amazon’s workforce grew as more people stayed at home and ordered toilet paper and groceries from the online retailer. It hired 500,000 individuals last year alone.

Amazon presently employs over 1.3 million people worldwide, making it the second-largest private employer in the United States, after retail rival Walmart, which is also hiring. The business announced on Wednesday that it would hire 20,000 staff to complete online orders and drive lifts at its Walmart and Sam’s Club warehouses.

Amazon, like Walmart before it, is under fire for how it treats its employees. Although a union drive at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama failed earlier this year, other unions and advocates are still targeting the firm.

The Teamsters, one of the country’s largest unions, announced in June that it would increase its attempts to unionize Amazon employees, claiming that the firm exploits workers by paying poor wages, forcing them to work at high speeds, and providing little job security.

Amazon said on Wednesday that the significant number of job postings is due to the company’s expanding operations, which include its cloud computing division and a plan to launch satellites into space to beam internet access to Earth.

The available jobs in the United States are scattered over 220 Amazon facilities across the country, according to the Seattle-based corporation.

(Input with agency)

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