Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images As the Amazon juggernaut trundles forward, the company is looking to fill 5,000 job openings at 17 warehouses with more vacancies likely to come as more warehouses open. Life as an Amazon warehouse worker seems none too pleasant , with the company's very efficient shipping and very low prices built on the back of a fairly ruthless labor regime. But more so than for your average low-wage employer, I give Amazon credit. This is a company that is genuinely operating with ultralow margins (in fact losing money over the past couple of quarters) and is genuinely adding staff at a rapid pace. If more American companies acted like Amazon and plowed their surpluses into new investment and expansion rather than looking to boost quarterly earnings to goose share prices , we would have a much lower unemployment rate, and employers of all kinds would have far less leverage over their workers. At a time when joblessness remains sky-high despite record corporate profits, there's something refreshing and admirable about Amazon adding thousands of workers despite zero-to-negative profits.
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The Seattle-based retailer also said it was currently hiring in four states for more than 2,000 jobs in its customer service network, which includes a mix of full-time, part-time and seasonal jobs. Amazon's hiring comes amid a continued push by the company to favour growth into new ventures even at the expense of near-term profitability under the premise that profit growth will come later. The company last week reported a quarterly loss of US$7 million as revenues soared 22 per cent to US$15.7 billion. Amazon has spent heavily promoting its tablet, the Kindle Fire, as well as to establish a live-streaming video feature and produce original programming. The market has generally welcomed Amazon's strategy, though the company also has its critics.
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IBMs typical game plan is to get in and upsell more high-end services. And technologies like IBMs Watsons AI capability often come with sticker shock. Of course, AWS, which likes to be seen as the low-cost provider, is not always to learn more so low-cost either and it also loves to sell more and more stuff as it churns out dozens of new services every year. Startups and bigger companies alike say AWS is the way to get started on a deployment, but once its production ready, its can be cheaper other to bring that app back in house. As Timothy Jones, CEO of startup Buzzient told me a few months ago, AWS can be a honey potyou can get in cheap but pretty soon its not very cheap at all. Of course, thats a characterization that AWS would vigorously contest. Anyway, the CIA says it has addressed GAO concerns about how the contract was awarded but we still dont know who the big winner is.
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The two ends of the warehouse is where product is stored. Think of a library with very small isles. Now imagine over 250 isles deep. Now imagine over 13 long isles across. Now imagine three floors of that. And finally imagine that double since there are two of these "libraries" - one on each side of the building. Your break is 15 min twice a day and 30 min lunch.
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Amazon hiring: 5K+ full-time new jobs listed, with list of cities, link to apply (Photos)
They also pay 30% more than regular retail jobs, says the online giant, which also waxes proudly about their programs such as Career Choice, a tuition assistance deal that pre-pays up to 95% of tuition for classes correlated to in-demand fields, not necessarily fields related to the person's Amazon career. View slideshow: Amazon hiring: 5K+ full-time new jobs listed, with list of cities, link to apply The jobs are located at the below-listed cities fulfillment centers, and a look at the Amazon Fulfillment Careers link shows descriptions under their Search and Apply Here link for job titles such as Seasonal Fulfillment Associate - San Antonio/Schertz, TX, a position that pays $10.75 per hour, according to Amazon. Jobs with titles such as Lead Fulfillment Associate San Antonio, TX pay $14.00 per hour, with details such as a completed Bachelors Degree from an accredited university and proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Outlook and Word listed in their preferred qualifications for the applying candidates. Here are the cities Amazon lists for their new job openings: Breinigsville, Pa.
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