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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: 5, Insightful) by takyon on Friday January 13 2017, @12:37PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Friday January 13 2017, @12:37PM (#453258) Journal

    Here's Bezos'ss''s' subtext:

    Ok, look. Trump hates us. He hates WaPo. He's low-key threatening us. We're going to have our hands full with the Trump Administration for the next four to eight years, unless Pence makes his power play. As you know, we've been aggressively expanding into same-day delivery and grocery over the last two years. Millennial pukes will pay the same-day delivery surcharge instead of renting a Zipcar and having to rub shoulders with poor people at Whole Foods. But we need more labor to move the billions of damn boxes. Our R&D robots are still crap and need another 5 years of research.

    So I'll go to Trump's little tech summit instead of Tim Cook. And we'll announce the expansion of our workforce by tens of thousands. Fuck it, we'll hire a hundred thousand new workers. We'll let Trump say it was his idea. Of course, the fulfillment center conditions will be as bad as they ever were. Worse, even. Any news blitzes about our crap working environment will get absolutely no coverage in WaPo.

    Over the next decade we will buy more robo patents. We'll watch and wait as the unis do the heavy lifting and make more dexterous robots. We'll acquire a few startups. Then, Trump will leave office and a Democratic successor will come in, who will happen to be a Gay-American. A white male, not a lesbian, mind you. We'll wait until the next Inauguration and then we'll spring the trap. All those workers will be sent directly to the gutter to die, as we unveil Amazonk Prometheans. Amazonk Prometheans will be capable of doing all of the jobs that a poorly paid American or overcompensated German can do. They could even fix toilets, but we won't have any of those in the new transcendence centers. The Democrats will be paralyzed as usual and moan about labor rights while doing absolutely nothing. We'll license the technology to everyone else, and become unstoppable.

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  • (Score: 2) by lgw on Friday January 13 2017, @06:13PM

    by lgw (2836) on Friday January 13 2017, @06:13PM (#453385)

    Amazon is building skyscrapers in Seattle at a rate of one a year, and filling them with software developers. I wouldn't be surprised if half those new jobs were high-paying tech jobs. Sometimes it's not an evil conspiracy you know - sometimes business are just successful.