Amazon To Add 100,000 Full-Time US Jobs in Next 18 Months (geekwire.com)

An anonymous reader shares a GeekWire report: Amazon just made a big statement about its continued growth aspirations, announcing that it plans to add another 100,000 full-time jobs in the U.S. over the next 18 months, an increase of more than 55 percent in its domestic workforce. The growth would push Amazon's U.S. workforce to more than 280,000 people by mid 2018. Amazon said in an announcement that the jobs will be available to people "all across the country and with all types of experience, education and skill levels -- from engineers and software developers to those seeking entry-level positions and on-the-job training."

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Bow to your Amazon overlords.

[Charcharodon]

Cool, but Amazon is simply cannibalizing the retail sector. That 100,000 jobs probably represents 1/3 (or more) of the total retail sector jobs that will be lost as Amazon pushes out less efficient players in the market. I'm all for it, I love Amazon, but let's not fool ourselves into thinking this is something that is going to be happy for the "fight for $15" crowd in the country. (They will be unemployed).

Re:Bow to your Amazon overlords.

[JackieBrown]

Progress? Adapt or die to new technology (as we here keep telling the RIAA and MPAA)

Re:Bow to your Amazon overlords.

[ShanghaiBill]

Speaking of acceleration, I wonder how many brick and mortar businesses (and jobs) they've left in their wake...

Steel plows put a lot of farmers out of business. Automatic looms put a lot of weavers out of business. Backhoes put a lot of ditch diggers out of business. Progress happens.

Re:Bow to your Amazon overlords.

[rtb61]

In this case it is not the retail sector but the logistics sector. Basically product storage, handling, picking and delivery. They'll be cannibalising jobs from all other industries and due to the poor labour practices, they will be turning good jobs into bad jobs.

Re:This is one company

[ClickOnThis]

You can rest assured that this is one company that wont credit Trump in any way for these jobs.

But you can rest assured that Trump himself will try to claim some credit. That's just how he rolls.

WHOOPEE!

[Thud457]

Are these jobs:

• 40 hours a week
• have full healthcare
• paid vacation
• pension^W 401k matching
• treatment with basic human respect

?

Yeah, I didn't think so.

Re:And what's the point?

[DogDude]

Trump is truly a 3D chess master.

No, he's not even a 2D chess master. He's a barely literate buffoon.

Re:Soros loser mod you down?

[ranton]

I'm inclined to agree based on this amazon result, sprint, carrier, Ford, kicking foreign cheap HB1 labor out, alibaba possibly too - probably more too!

This is all just Trump's PR machine taking credit for things that happen all the time anyway. According to The Reshoring Initiative, about 3000 jobs per month moved back to the US from 2009-2016. In 2015 it was almost 5600 jobs per month. With Carrier saving 800 jobs immediately, Sprint creating 5000 jobs over 12 months, and Ford creating 700 jobs in an undetermined amount of time, it all comes up to well under 1000 jobs per month. And arguably only a few hundred of them would have been counted by the Reshoring Initiative, so it's an even smaller number compared to previous years than it looks. These are all just very small deals being made at a local level which happen all of the time.

When presidents save jobs, they do it millions at a time. Like when Obama saved an estimated 1.5 million automotive jobs through TARP. It's not fair to compare Trump's accomplishments with Obama's since Trump hasn't entered office yet, but these minor news stories are the type of wins a mayor or governor would brag about, not a President elect. The type of deal making where Trump sits in an office with individual business owners (even if the business is as big as Ford) is not the type which will make meaningful change for American workers.