"Pushed by Pandemic, Amazon Goes on a Hiring Spree Without Equal The company has added 427,300 employees in 10 months, bringing its global work force to more than 1.2 million..." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/...zon-goes-on-a-hiring-spree-without-equal.html
"Amazon’s big holiday shopping advantage: An in-house shipping network swollen by pandemic-fueled growth ... Amazon quietly built a logistics operation that rivals UPS... ...Amazon took a different tack, hiring 400,000 workers to stow, sort, pick, pack and deliver goods from its warehouses across the country, and pushing its total employee count over 1.1 million people. It didn’t stop there. The e-commerce giant leased 12 Boeing 767-300 cargo aircraft, bringing its air fleet above 80 jets. It added 220 package facilities since the start of the year, ranging from urban delivery stations to giant warehouses, according to an industry consultant... 'They are building the world’s biggest package-delivery company,' said David Glick, a former Amazon logistics executive..." https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/27/amazon-shipping-competitive-threat/
Meanwhile... Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests in 15 Countries https://www.vice.com/en/article/epd...dinated-black-friday-protests-in-12-countries https://makeamazonpay.com/
