Amazon to Hire 10,000 Employees in Bellevue in Coming Years
September 04 2020 - 10:11AM
Dow Jones News
By Dave Sebastian
Amazon.com Inc. said it plans to add 10,000 workers in Bellevue,
Wash., as the e-commerce giant expands its footprint in various
cities and shoppers inundate the company's site with orders amid
the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Seattle company's move on Friday followed its plan on
Thursday to add 10,000 permanent new jobs in the U.K. this year,
hiring engineers, human-resources, health and safety, finance and
other professionals. Amazon on Friday didn't specify the roles it
is hiring for in Bellevue.
The tech giant in February said it was planning to hire 15,000
people in Bellevue, and Friday's plan would add to that headcount.
Amazon, whose profit for the June quarter doubled to a record $5.2
billion, employed nearly 800,000 full and part-time employees as of
the end of last year, according to its annual securities
filing.
With the hiring, Amazon is also expanding its office presence,
as other companies embrace lasting remote unemployment. Amazon said
it has secured an additional two million square feet of office
space in downtown Bellevue, and it will start the second phase of
the building of its 27-story office tower in coming weeks. The
company last month said it was expanding its physical offices in
six U.S. cities and adding thousands of corporate jobs in those
areas.
U.S. employers added 1.4 million jobs in August, and the
unemployment rate fell to 8.4%, the Labor Department reported
Friday, as the economy continued to rebound from the pandemic.
Amazon on Friday also said it is giving a $1 million grant to
the City of Bellevue's Human Services Fund, to be distributed to
more than 40 entities.
Write to Dave Sebastian at dave.sebastian@wsj.com
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