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Amazon announces plans to create 3,500 new jobs in US

24 Aug '20
3 min read
Pic: Amazon
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Amazon, a US-based e-commerce company, has announced plans to create 3,500 new tech and corporate jobs across six cities in the US. The company will expand in Dallas, Detroit, Denver, New York (Manhattan), Phoenix and San Diego. Amazon will invest more than $1.4 billion in these new offices, which will host teams supporting businesses across the company.
 
“People from all walks of life come to Amazon to develop their career from recent graduates looking for a place to turn their ideas into high-impact products, to veterans accessing new jobs in cloud computing thanks to our upskilling programmes,” Beth Galetti, senior vice president, human resources at Amazon, said in a press release. “These 3,500 new jobs will be in cities across the country with strong and diverse talent pools. We look forward to helping these communities grow their emerging tech workforce.”
 
Teams in these cities will support various businesses across Amazon, including AWS, Alexa, Amazon Advertising, Amazon Fashion, OpsTech and Amazon Fresh, among others. The company expects to hire for a variety of roles, from cloud infrastructure architects and software engineers to data scientists, product managers, and user experience designers.
 
Amazon’s Tech Hub and corporate office expansions include: Dallas, TX - Amazon will expand the existing Dallas Tech Hub at its Galleria location in North Dallas, adding more than 100,000 square feet of space and 600 tech and corporate roles; Detroit, MI - the acquisition of more than 25,000 square feet of office space in Detroit will provide space for an additional 100 jobs; Denver, CO - Amazon’s Denver Tech Hub will grow by an additional 100 jobs with the addition of 20,000 square feet of new office space; New York City, NY - in Manhattan, Amazon plans to create 2,000 new jobs and has acquired the Lord & Taylor Fifth Avenue building, where the company plans to open a new 630,000 square foot office; Phoenix, AZ - company’s 90,000 square foot Phoenix Tech Hub expansion at 100 Mill will bring more than 500 new jobs to the community; and San Diego, CA - in San Diego, an addition of more than 40,000 square feet of office space will allow for the creation of 200 new jobs. 
 
Since 2010, Amazon has directly created more than 600,000 jobs in the US and invested more than $350 billion across more than 40 states, including infrastructure and compensation. Company estimates that Amazon’s direct investments have contributed an additional $315 billion to the US economy over the last decade and supported more than 780,000 jobs on top of the company’s direct hires in industries like construction, logistics or professional services.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (JL)

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