Shopping is difficult these days. Shops have to remain closed, many people are stuck in their apartments. Amazon can hardly keep up with delivering and woos new employees with higher wages.
The world’s largest online retailer Amazon wants to counter a sharp increase in orders due to the spread of the corona virus with a recruitment campaign. The company announced on Monday that it would hire 100,000 additional full-time and part-time warehousing and delivery workers in the United States to meet increased demand. There is currently no shortage of manpower potential, the shipper explicitly woos employees who are otherwise employed in the catering, travel and hospitality industries. You could work at Amazon until the situation normalizes, according to a company blog entry.
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To make the stressful jobs more attractive, the company plans to raise wages in April. In the US, there are said to be two dollars more per hour, in Europe, depending on the country, around two euros. The group plans to spend over $ 350 million on this. The new employees do not have to worry about their health, Amazon emphasizes that measures such as social distancing have been introduced at the workplace and cleaning has been intensified.
In the company blog, the company presents the job advertisements as a kind of relief campaign in the corona virus crisis. While the pandemic continues, Amazon and its partner network help communities worldwide “like few others can” – by supplying them with important deliveries to their front doors People. In times of social demarcation due to the virus, this is particularly important for the elderly and the weak. The obvious leaves Amazon unmentioned: the many orders should bring the company dazzling business.
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