Within 48 hours of the $15 minimum wage announcement, more than
70,000 applications were completed for Amazon’s numerous customer
fulfillment roles
Amazon offers full-time, part-time, and seasonal roles across
hundreds of locations, including a variety of shift patterns and
flexible schedules
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 17, 2018--
NASDAQ: AMZN — As Amazon heads into the holiday shopping season, the
company is currently filling more than 100,000 seasonal jobs across its
network of customer fulfillment and delivery facilities this year
complete with new employment perks. Newly hired applicants will benefit
from the new Amazon$15 minimum hourly wage, weekly paychecks for
seasonal roles, flexible shift opportunities to fit within busy
schedules, the option of receiving job information via text messaging,
and a new application process that helps fit job seekers to the right
building and the right role.
“For those who are looking for short-term roles to help pay for gifts or
supplement other income, this is a great opportunity to try a role with
Amazon for the first time. We also have team members who return to work
at Amazon during the holidays year after year,” said Dave Clark, SVP for
Amazon Operations. “Since the $15 minimum wage announcement, we are
seeing a great response from job applicants and are encouraged in our
early efforts to lead in pay for hourly employees.”
In response to the $15 minimum wage announcement issued on October 2nd;
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More than 70,000 applications were received in the first 48 hours post
announcement
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More applications were received in the week after the announcement
than in the entire month of August
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Traffic to AmazonDelivers.Jobs was up 180%
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Tens of thousands of interested job applicants have already picked
their preferred shift and attended hiring events across the US
Amazon hiring teams across the country are continuing to hold job fairs,
especially in California, Illinois, Washington, Kentucky, New Jersey,
and Florida, where the hiring need is greatest for fulfillment centers,
sortation centers, and delivery stations. For more information on
Amazon’s job creation impact, visit
here. Seasonal team members help fulfill customer orders, sort
packages, load trucks, and the hundreds of other tasks needed to make
the holidays happen for customers. Employees will be part of a fun and
peculiar culture that keep people coming back year after year,
particularly family and friends of current employees who are the
company’s biggest source of seasonal candidates.
Throughout the year, on average 90 percent of fulfillment center
associates are regular, full-time employees. On top of Amazon’s $15
minimum wage, the company also offers full-time employees
industry-leading benefits which include comprehensive healthcare on Day
1, up to 20 weeks paid maternity and parental leave, and Amazon’s
innovative Career Choice program, which pre-pays 95% of tuition for
courses in high-demand fields.
Continues Clark, “Every year we start again with hundreds of new
leadership promotions, new facilities launching in new communities,
teams are built and trained, massive selection is stocked … all in
preparation for our busiest time of the year.”
Candidates interested in seasonal positions can learn more and apply
online at www.AmazonDelivers.Jobs.
Amazon encourages anyone to come see for themselves what it’s like to
work at an Amazon fulfillment center by taking a tour; go to http://amazonfctours.com
for more information.
About Amazon
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than
competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational
excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping,
personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle
Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa
are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more
information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.
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