E-commerce company Amazon is set to hire 75,000 employees to cope with the increase in demand for household goods due to the continued lockdown in the US over coronavirus pandemic.
Amazon has already hired over 100,000 new employees in the past four weeks as a result of the uptick in demand it’s seeing due to the global coronavirus pandemic, and now they are set to add more numbers.
The company revealed the expanded hiring efforts in a blog post on Monday, where it also announced that it will be upping its total spend on pay increases to over $500 million in light of growing need.
Amazon says that it hopes its hiring efforts can help mitigate some of the job loss and furloughing that has resulted from the economic crisis that is also occurring as part of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The company said it will continue to bolster its investment in “safety, pay and benefits” for all new and existing employees. The online retail giant has detailed some of its efforts in this regard, including rolling out temperature checks across fulfilment centres and Whole Food stores, as well as distributing masks to employees and conducting daily audits of these practices.
