Amazon is hiring an additional 100,000 warehouse workers and raising pay as the coronavirus causes an ‘unprecedented’ increase in demand for this time of year – By Eugene Kim (Business Insider) / March 16 2020
- Amazon is adding 100,000 warehouse and delivery workers, according to a company blog post.
- It’s also raising their pay by $2 per hour through April.
- The moves are meant to improve the working conditions of their warehouse and delivery workers as they are seeing a huge spike in workloads following the coronavirus outbreak that’s causing more people to shop online.
- Amazon will have roughly 900,000 total employees worldwide, following Monday’s move.
Amazon said in a blog post Monday that it’s hiring an additional 100,000 US warehouse and delivery workers and raising their pay by $2 per hour through April. The Wall Street Journal was the first to report it.
The increased hiring will bring Amazon’s total workforce to nearly 900,000 worldwide. Amazon said it’s investing roughly $350 million to increase the pay.
“We are seeing a significant increase in demand, which means our labor needs are unprecedented for this time of year,” the blog post said.
The moves are designed to help its warehouse and delivery workers as they deal with increased workloads following the coronavirus outbreak that’s causing more people to shop online.
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