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Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S.

posted by mrpg on Friday January 13 2017, @11:20AM   Printer-friendly

takyon writes:

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.

Also at CNN, and Amazon.

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  • (Score: 2) by AnonTechie on Friday January 13 2017, @08:45PM

    by AnonTechie (2275) on Friday January 13 2017, @08:45PM (#453449) Journal

    Just read this article. Thought it might be relevant to this discussion. Whether you do, or do not, trust McKinsey is another story !!

    Here’s a scary thought or a reason to rejoice, depending on which side of the equation you belong. Half the work people do in their jobs can be automated, shows a McKinsey Global Institute study released today.

    Instead of assessing the impact of automation on specific jobs, the study went to a more granular level by looking at the activities involved in various jobs. The logic is that every occupation has a range of activities, each with varying potential for automation.

    McKinsey found that 49 percent of the activities people are paid to do in the global economy can be automated with “currently demonstrated technology.” That involves US$11.9 trillion in wages and touches 1.1 billion people.

    https://www.techinasia.com/work-people-automated-mckinsey-study-shows [techinasia.com]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @10:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @10:22PM (#453516)

    If they could get the robot to sit in meetings and look bored, they'd be golden.