While brick-and-mortar stores and other businesses are struggling with a brutal year, Amazon’s company hopes – so much so – that the company is looking to add as many as 3,500 new rental homes in six U.S. cities, it said Tuesday.
According to her blog, the recruitment push will add more “business and tech employees” to a range of divisions within the organization, ranging from voice assistant development and its cloud business, to shopping, advertising, fashion and more.
“Teams in these cities will support several companies in Amazon, including AWS, Alexa, Amazon Advertising, Amazon Fashion, OpsTech, and Amazon Fresh, among others,” the company said in its post. “We look forward to hiring for a variety of roles, from cloud infrastructure architects and software engineers to data scientists, product managers and user experience designers.”
These new positions will be based in Dallas, Detroit, Denver, New York, Phoenix and San Diego.
The move stands out in an era that has shut down companies, put a massive leap in unemployment claims and created teams at a distance, spreading the new culture of workplace.
Indeed, as peers and rivals like Google, Facebook and Twitter yearn for an extended remote work situation – indefinitely, in the case of Facebook and Twitter – and retailers seeking relief from lease obligations, Amazon seems fine with itself on the hook for a big upscaling of real estate real estate. So far, the e-tailer has only extended its work-from-home policy through January.
Think of it as another dimension of her campaign to grow her sprawling empire. Especially in New York.
It’s been half a year since Amazon abandoned plans to introduce “HQ2” in Long Island City, Queens, but that hasn’t changed its apparent affinity for real estate in New York.
In December, just before the pandemic took place, the company announced plans to open an office at Hudson Yards in Manhattan, adding 335,000 square feet to its footprint. And his latest $ 1 billion purchase of Lord & Taylor’s Fifth Avenue flagship adds another 630,000 square feet. With all that space, of course, Amazon will deploy more than half of its new recruits in the neighborhood, which will earn as many as 2,000 openings. The rest will be filled in from the remaining five cities.
If Amazon stores the spaces left by Sears and JC Penney to use as distribution boards, as reported, its operation will have impressive scaling up in a period that threatens others in the retail sector. The company has not confirmed these plans, but it would certainly fit the pattern.
All in all, these movements are not very surprising. Amazon’s already thriving business exploded further during the coronavirus crisis, which was anticipated and confirmed by the results of the company that covered the period. But the recurring theme was that the company had not fully capitalized on this influx of activity.
In the second quarter, Amazon’s retail sales jumped a record 40 percent. Meanwhile, its AWS welfare services company reported revenue growth falling below 30 percent for the first time. The company shrugged to meet the demand and put health care measures in place for workers, amid rising costs and cost-effectiveness priorities. There was hardly time to focus on long-term priorities, which could also enhance discovery on their platform and the development of their fashion business, an area that is now particularly challenging.
