Amazon To Add 55,000 Employees

After growing its workforce to more than 1.3 million employees in 2020, Amazon ($AMZN@US) plans to hire another 55,000 people globally. This is the first major hiring push since new Chief Executive Andy Jassy took over for Jeff Bezos. Most of the new jobs will be in corporate and technology roles. Amazon’s effort to launch a constellation of mini-satellites to provide high-speed broadband access will also add staff. In the U.S., the company plans to add 40,000 corporate and technology firms, as well as tens of thousands of hourly positions in its operations network. The rest of the new hires will be for positions in Canada, France, Italy, Spain, the UK, Germany, India, and Japan.