Amazon Set to Hire 3,000 Corporate Employees in Boston, Continue U.S. Expansion
January 26 2021 - 2:59AM
Dow Jones News
By Sebastian Herrera
Amazon.com Inc. is planning to add 3,000 employees in its
corporate ranks in the Boston area, one of a number of expansions
of technology jobs in major American cities for the company.
The online retailer said the jobs will be distributed across
support teams from the Alexa smart speaker system to Amazon Web
Services, Amazon Robotics and Amazon Pharmacy, a new business unit
launched in November. The jobs will include roles in technology and
software development.
The hiring plans in Boston add to one of several recent
expansions for Amazon, which is the nation's second-largest
employer, with a workforce in the U.S. totaling more than 800,000
people. The company last year saw unparalleled growth, adding more
than 400,000 employees, bringing its global workforce to more than
1.1 million. The company has added thousands of jobs to corporate
offices across America, including in large hubs like New York, San
Diego and Dallas.
The company's expansion in numerous U.S. cities comes almost two
years after its closely watched plans to establish one part of a
second headquarters in New York crumbled following backlash from
some local, state and congressional officials and activists over
the project, which included roughly $3 billion in tax
incentives.
Amazon said it leased a 17-story office building in Boston's
Seaport development to accommodate its growing workforce in the
city. The company said it isn't receiving any new financial
incentives for the expansion.
The roughly 630,000 square-foot office will include work space,
"innovation labs" and mixed-use common areas for employees, Amazon
said. Amazon earlier leased a 430,000-square-foot building set to
be completed this year that will accommodate about 2,000
employees.
Last fall, Amazon said it is committed to keeping its corporate
employees in offices. Even as many companies have embraced remote
work, executives have said they value connections made by employees
at offices and the ability for them to work in an ad hoc
fashion.
"We are looking forward to returning to the office," Ardine
Williams, vice president of workforce development at Amazon, told
The Wall Street Journal in August when the company unveiled an
expansion in six U.S. cities. She said urban locations remain
critical to Amazon's company structure and provide talent pools
that the company expects will remain robust.
Write to Sebastian Herrera at Sebastian.Herrera@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
January 26, 2021 02:44 ET (07:44 GMT)
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