The reason why Amazon’s number of employees in the third quarter has soared is that it is preparing for the holiday shopping season, and the distribution center and transportation department have recruited a large number of people.
Editor’s note: This article is from Tencent Technology, reviewing the Golden Deer.
October 25, according to foreign media reports, as the second largest employer in the United States, Amazon’s total number of employees worldwide now reaches 750,000, which is a very important milestone.
In the third quarter of 2019, the total number of Amazon employees was 750,000, a year-on-year increase of 22%. The number of Amazon employees in the United States has risen to more than 400,000. Even more amazing is that in the past three months, the total number of Amazon employees has increased by 96,700.
This is the biggest jump in the history of Amazon. It was only two years ago when the tech giant acquired the Whole Foods Supermarket. At that time, Amazon received more than 87,000 employees in the total food supermarket, which increased the total number of employees in the year by nearly 160,000.
The reason why Amazon’s number of employees has soared in the third quarter is that it is preparing for the holiday shopping season, and the distribution center and transportation department have recruited a large number of people. In general, Amazon’s number of employees will increase significantly in the third quarter, and growth will be flat in the fourth quarter and the following year.
This year, Amazon intends to accelerate its delivery projects and prepare for a more difficult test. For this holiday season, recruitment has also entered the high-speed stage. Brian Olsavsky, Amazon’s chief financial officer, said: “Because of the accelerated expansion of Prime’s delivery project, this year’s accelerated recruitment trend is more obvious.”
Olsavski also said that Amazon plans to spend $1.5 billion in the fourth quarter to help convert Prime’s two-day delivery service to the same-day service, which is almost twice the $800 million spent in the second quarter. .
He also pointed out that the company strengthened the number of software engineering, sales and marketing teams for Amazon Cloud Computing Services AWS in the third quarter. Amazon is also rapidly recruiting in areas such as equipment, video and international expansion.
In September of this year, Amazon hosted the “CareerDay” event in six cities across the United States to increase the number of job seekers. The company said the event helped generate 208,000 online job applications.
At present, there are more than 30,500 positions on Amazon’s job search page. Amazon’s hometown of Seattle is currently the most open place with more than 9,800 jobs. Amazon recently had more than 50,000 employees in Seattle.
Amazon has 18 technology centers in the US, only in the pastIn the two months, its business in Chicago and Portland has doubled, and more real estate has been seized in these cities to support future expansion.
Of course, Amazon also has a plan called HQ2. Amazon plans to hire 25,000 people to provide jobs for its second North American headquarters in northern Virginia, but it still has a long way to go. Amazon has been recruiting for HQ2 since April, and the company plans to expand its team to 400 by the end of the year.