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Amazon has announced that it will create 100,000 new full-time jobs in the U.S. over the next 18 months, mostly in warehouses (fulfillment centers) and call centers. Many of the jobs will be added in Texas, California, Florida, New Jersey, among other states:
Amazon has quickly ramped up its workforce over the last few years, as it pushes to open up more fulfillment centers to get packages out to its customers more quickly. In 2011, Amazon had 30,000 full-time employees in the U.S. At the end of last year, it employed 180,000 people. [...] Amazon has seen "tremendous" demand for their retail service as well as a fast-growing cloud business, says Edward Jones analyst Josh Olson on why Amazon is hungry for more workers. Amazon is increasingly emphasizing convenience of its retail service, such as Same-Day Delivery options, as its edge on pricing dulls with the introduction of state sales taxes.
President-elect Trump's incoming press secretary Sean Spicer helped his boss to take credit for the news:
"The president-elect met with heads of several of the tech companies and urged them to keep their jobs and production inside the United States," spokesman Sean Spicer said in his opening remarks in a press call on Thursday.
(Score: 2) by jelizondo on Friday January 13 2017, @06:40PM
Right, but they do need accountants, lawyers, IT and so forth. Many people make more than a decent living servicing SMBs. Yeah, one doesn’t get medical/dental or other benefits as a contractor, but one pretty much sets the price of the service and the variety of businesses make it more interesting than the boring same ol’, same ol’ every day.
Some of my clients are large (300+ employees), some a really small, like 5 people, some are government entities. Each one has a different price-point and different needs and resources; I find it very challenging and fun to come up with solutions that fit their budgets/expectations.
I’ll grant you that at a large enterprise you might get career advancement and a much better position, but the days of the ‘company man’ are gone; chances of getting downsized or outsourced need to be weighted against the chance of advancement.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday January 13 2017, @07:44PM
That puts you in the roughly 20% of SMBs that are professional services. My point is that most of the others are not creating middle-class jobs, they're creating low-wage jobs, just like the megacorps mostly create low-wage jobs.
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