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In the year of pandemic, recession and layoffs, Amazon 'hired like mad'

The company has added 427,300 employees in 10 months, bringing its global work force to more than 1.2 million

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The spree has accelerated since the onset of the pandemic, which has turbocharged Amazon’s business and made it a winner of the crisis

Karen Weise | NYT

8 min read Last Updated : Nov 28 2020 | 2:27 AM IST

Amazon has embarked on an extraordinary hiring binge this year, vacuuming up an average of 1,400 new workers a day and solidifying its power as online shopping becomes more entrenched in the coronavirus pandemic.

The hiring has taken place at Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle, at its hundreds of warehouses in rural communities and suburbs, and in countries such as India and Italy. Amazon added 427,300 employees between January and October, pushing its work force to more than 1.2 million people globally, up more than 50 percent from a year ago. Its number of workers now approaches the entire population of

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