(The other is Walmart.)Īnd it is likely to keep hiring at some level in Seattle. It is one of only two companies in the nation to employ over half a million people. The retail giant now employs 541,900 people, up from 382,400 last quarter and 306,800 a year ago. This was largely, but not completely, due to the acquisition of Whole Foods. Nearly half of the company's current job listings, almost 5,300 jobs, are for its fast-growing cloud computing business Amazon Web Services.Īnd it's worth noting that Amazon has been on an unprecedented hiring binge for years and in 2017 its employee base swelled an astounding 77% from the end of June to the end of September. In fact, "frugality" is literally one of the company's " Leadership Principals." So the latest hiring trends may simply be part of the company's ongoing efforts to shave costs.Īmazon tells us, "We are constantly evaluating hiring needs to ensure we're dedicating resources efficiently and effectively, so it's common for there to be fluctuations in headcount as we grow at different rates across businesses." ![]() Cult of frugalityĪmazon has always had a culture of penny pinching. This includes hiring freezes or hiring postponements in some departments in one case, cutbacks in travel spending and in other cases reorganizations of teams to reduce redundant jobs or layers of management, Day reports.Īs Amazon looks for a city for its second headquarters - with nearly 240 cities bidding for the honor to host Amazon's second headquarters - the company may be putting the brakes on growth at its main base of operations for now. What's more, a few employees told The Seattle Times' Matt Day that some departments are being asked to endure some austerity. The Times found that as recently as June, the company was still looking to hire about 9,000 for its Seattle headquarters and that the current number of job openings in Seattle is the lowest since 2014. Roughly one-third of those jobs, about 3,503, are located at the company's Seattle headquarters.īut that actually represents a big drop-off in Amazon's hiring in its hometown, reports the Seattle Times. ![]()
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