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Amazon.com Inc. is hiring 100,000 seasonal workers -- 25 percent more than last year -- as it continues to make online ordering almost as fast as running to the store.
The short-term hires will supplement 90,000 permanent employees at Amazons 70 warehouses and shipping hubs around the country to get through the retailers busiest quarter, the Seattle-based company said in a statement Tuesday.
Analysts on average expect Amazon to generate $35.1 billion in fourth-quarter revenue, up 20 percent from a year earlier, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The largest online retailer on Thursday will report third-quarter results, which will include its first Prime Day promotion, a one-day blowout sale in July. Amazon said it sold more products on Prime Day than on Black Friday during last holiday season.
Amazon has expanded same-day delivery to 12 U.S. cities, requiring the company to build new shipping hubs closer to urban areas. It also is delivering meals from restaurants in Seattle and Portland and has created crafts marketplace Amazon Handmade to compete with Etsy Inc. and EBay Inc. as the retailer seeks new revenue sources.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-20/amazon-to-hire-100-000-temporary-employees-for-holiday-ramp-up
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Could be the largest amount in the United States ever.
Atman
(31,464 posts)The shifts are mostly overnight, being on call a lot, lots of heavy lifting. Serious grunt job...for about $12/hr. And then you're laid off in January.
Logical
(22,457 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Not just Amazon's, but everybody's. What do they do the rest of the year?
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)fired for being to damn old and forced to retire and are living out of their R/V's. You will never see this in any of the Corporate Press and Media. Check any R/V Park near any Amazon DC and ask the folks and you will get the surprise of of your life. Have been posting little tid bits about this for some time,there is a huge segment of our Nation that are living the twenty first century version of the Grapes of Wrath. Yes,I have said this before,there are many who live a Nomadic Life Style,and they are a separate segment in it's self and are very well off financially.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)Spring / Summer jobs would be in the vein of: Landscaping, Roofing, Retail down the Shore, etc...
Fall / Winter jobs would be: Christmas Retail, Snow Removal, UPS, etc...
I usually got a jump on applying for my next job well before the current season was over. Most of the time I would not even be out of work.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)I begin at the new Amazon center in ft Worth in two weeks for a seasonal, second-shift warehouse job for some extra holiday money. Nine, 35-hour weeks (natch) loading and unloading trucks. Easy, brainless money for the same thing I did in college, but paid a wee bit more...
olddots
(10,237 posts)edhopper
(33,639 posts)The Grapes of Wrath.
Initech
(100,108 posts)He said it's just about the most mind numbing, miserable job out there. No thanks.
Atman
(31,464 posts)I thought, wth...a short drive, some extra dough. Then I heard all of the horror stories about working for Amazon.
Then the freelance jobs started rolling in. It's political season. My previous employer (laid me off after the last election cycle) is now hiring me as a contractor. I work from home, I get direct deposit paychecks. Screw Amazon.
Initech
(100,108 posts)But after what my friend was saying, no dice. I think Black Friday retail would be the less stressful job in this case.