Amazon Plans To Hire 150,000 Temporary Workers For The Holidays

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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN BusinessOctober 18, 2021 astatine 9:04 pm

(CNN) — Amazon plans to adhd 150,000 impermanent workers successful the United States for the vacation buying rush, a 50% summation from the company’s vacation hiring propulsion a twelvemonth ago.

Amazon, similar galore retailers and logistics companies, is facing challenges hiring workers and is raising pay, dangling bonuses, and expanding benefits successful effect to the pressures. The company’s vacation jobs this twelvemonth person an mean starting wage of $18 an hr — higher than Amazon’s $15 minimum wage— sign-on bonuses up to $3,000 and an further $3 an hr successful wage for definite shifts successful immoderate locations, Amazon said successful an announcement Monday.

Amazon’s impermanent positions for the holidays see picking, scanning and packing items astatine warehouses and loading boxes onto trucks.

Amazon’s concern has surged during the pandemic arsenic galore shoppers, spending much clip astatine home, accrued their online purchases. Amazon has added much than 450,000 workers successful the United States since the opening of the pandemic and present has upwards of 950,000 US workers.

“It’s a precise competitory labour marketplace retired there. And certainly, the biggest contributor to inflationary pressures that we’re seeing successful the business,” Brian Olsavsky, Amazon’s main fiscal officer, said successful July. “We’re spending a batch of wealth connected signing and incentives.”

Amazon past period said it planned to prosecute 125,000 imperishable workers up of the holidays.

Other chains are adding impermanent and imperishable workers astatine stores and warehouses to conscionable request from vacation shoppers.

Walmart plans to prosecute astir 150,000 employees, astir of them successful permanent, full-time positions, portion Target is aiming to bring connected 100,000 seasonal workers and 30,000 imperishable proviso concatenation employees.

UPS, Kohl’s, Nordstrom, Macy’s and others are besides adding workers for the holidays. Some are offering sign-on bonuses this twelvemonth for caller hires and different incentives.

There are signs, however, that involvement successful vacation enactment for immoderate has dwindled.

The stock of occupation seeker searches for seasonal enactment during the 7 days ending September 22 was down 1.5% compared with the aforesaid clip past twelvemonth and 39% from 2019, jobs tract Indeed said successful a study past month.

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