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Amazon: Wiping Hundreds of Jobs but Creating Thousands More


Amazon’s Layoffs:
Bear Down Logistics, a company that gained quite a lot of popularity in the past few years delivering packages for Amazon, failed to meet the safety and performance requirements to Amazon's standards and so it will no longer be working with the company. As a result, they had to lay off hundreds of workers and cease operations in five States. The company joins other companies from Washington state and Kansas, among others, that are cutting jobs in the wake of Amazon abruptly cutting ties with them. Because Amazon no longer works with United Parcel Service (UPS) or FedEx, there was a window of opportunity for smaller firms to do business with the delivery giant. The move shows that while Amazon offers opportunities to smaller companies, it will cut them off without any hesitation if its standards aren’t met.
Amazon began attempting to more directly control the provision of delivery services for its products by launching a new initiative in 2018, encouraging more entrepreneurs to start delivery businesses. It is, hence, expanding its network of delivery service providers. Amazon works with these new small independent delivery firms that help get packages to customers’ doors and it controls most aspects of their operations. The workers delivering for Amazon are paid less in comparison to their counterparts working at larger delivery companies like UPS, which help Amazon lower costs. While, this new program brings more of the costs and customer service under its control, it let entrepreneurs run the operations under the behemoth’s name. Moreover, Amazon is facing a lot of criticism for prioritizing speed over safety, and there have been some injuries and deaths because of that attitude. So, key concern for Amazon should be to balance safety with its efforts to deliver things quickly at the lowest possible cost.
Amazon has posted its largest number of job listings up-to-date:
Amazon had about 37,200 job listings around the globe, until last week. A company's spokesman said that the system update restricts easy comparisons to earlier periods. Amazon’s ongoing hiring follows a year when its global workforce grew by 150,500 people, or more than 23%. It finished 2019 with 798,000 full- and part-time employees, not including contractors.
The global workforce grew by 150,500 people a year.  Finishing in 2019, with 798,000 employees. By a large margin, Amazon main headquarters city has more than 50,000 employees remains the place of plurality of jobs. It has been said that "workers have choices, there’s a lot of demand from other businesses" as the low unemployment rate can be a challenge from other companies too.
Pay at Amazon starts at a minimum of $15 an hour, the wage floor it instituted for U.S. workers in 2018, and rises up to $160,000 a year for even very senior employees with a few exceptions though stock awards boost total compensation far higher. Vance-Sherman remarked, " they are able to draw from Boston, New York, San Francisco, Mumbai, Beijing. They aren’t as constrained in a manner of speaking because they’re not exclusively drawing from the local labor market.”
Heslop also remarked that his assumptions are that Amazon doesn't have to work as hard to source or attract candidates. A New York based workers-compensation-claims analyst to support efforts to reduce accidents among amazon's third-party delivery partners. The famous amazon Alexa gad around 1,820 job listings. Other devices like echo dot microphone and fire tablets had 1,720 listings.

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