Following a robust holiday shopping season that saw record numbers of buyers shop online – often from their phones – Amazon has announced that in the next 18 months or so, it will add 100,000 full time jobs to its payroll. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said in a statement that the jobs will open up across the company; in fulfilment centers, service networks and quote “in local communities throughout the nation.”
If the forecast pans out, it would bring Amazon’s workforce to nearly 300,000. And again, that’s if it pans out. During the presidential campaign, Bezos, who also operates the Washington Post, often butted heads with fellow billionaire and now President-elect Donald Trump. Trump said then that if elected, Amazon – and Bezos, by extension – are “going to have such problems” when it came to taxes. So will 100,000 new jobs help put out that fire? We’ll see, stay tuned.
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