Amazon hiring 1 lakh workers as online orders surge on coronavirus worries
Highlights:
- 1, 00,000 workers to be hired by Amazon.
- COVID-19 becoming a global health threat that is creating a surge over online shopping.
- Amazon facing a shortage of products and running out of stock.
- The company will pay an extra 2 pounds per hour.
Coronavirus is creating a huge panic situation everywhere in the world and people are avoiding going out for shopping, so everyone is turning towards online shopping to meet their needs. Amazon.com Inc is going to hire 100,000 warehouse and delivery workers in the United States to deal with the heavy rush in online orders.
The normal shopkeepers are shutting down their stores and people are locking themselves in their home as they are heavily fearing the spread of coronavirus. Everyone is rushing towards online shopping to buy needed things that have led Amazon to face a shortage of products and also had run out of stock for household items.
Amazon said that two of their employees are being tested positive with COVID-19 so those employees would be given up to two weeks of pay. To prevent more such cases, Amazon had allowed its employees to do work from home.
They are hiring people who are currently looking for work because of the coronavirus. “We want those people to know we welcome them on our teams until things return to normal and their past employer is able to bring them back,” Amazon said in a blog post.
Amazon writes in a blog, “We are opening 100,000 new full and part-time positions across the US in our fulfillment centers and delivery network to meet the surge in demand from people relying on Amazon’s service during this stressful time, particularly those most vulnerable to being out in public.”
Amazon has also said that it would even invest over $350 million to increase the pays for its employees in the US and Canada by $2 an hour, 2 pounds in the UK and about 2 Euros in the European Union.
There was no clearance about the impact on the delivery operations from new government restrictions. In San Francisco Bay Area, the officials informed that people must try to stay at their home except those who are for some emergency purposes like, businesses that deliver groceries, food, goods & services directly to the residences.
