Amazon To Hire 20% More Holiday Workers To Meet Growing Demand (bloomberg.com)

Posted by msmash on Thursday October 13, 2016 @04:10AM from the seasonal-changes dept.

Amazon.com is hiring 20 percent more seasonal workers this year, suggesting it anticipates a strong holiday season. Bloomberg reports: The e-commerce giant will add 120,000 seasonal positions, up from 100,000 last year, "to support growing customer demand," said Mike Roth, vice president of customer fulfillment, in a statement. The workers will fill spots in fulfillment and sorting centers and at customer service sites in the U.S. Last year more than 14,000 seasonal employees were shifted to full-time roles after the holidays and the company expects to increase that number this year, Roth said.

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Re:And people will still spend money there... by ShanghaiBill · 2016-10-13 05:21 · Score: 2, Informative

Everybody who spends money with them are just as guilty of this as the company, themselves.
Guilty of what? Providing willing workers with jobs? Plenty of companies hire seasonal workers. That doesn't make them evil.