Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K people in a single year

Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by iandanforth on Friday February 03, 2017 @12:25PM (#13561430)

This sounds extremely dangerous. How can a company integrate this many new people without bringing the rest of the organization to a standstill?

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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by dandr01d on Friday February 03, 2017 @12:29PM (#13561464)

Because a majority of the new hires are working in fulfillment centers or delivery roles that scale easily.

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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by maxxxxx on Friday February 03, 2017 @12:41PM (#13561558)

A lot of the new workers probably work in warehouses where they are basically a kind of more intelligent robot. I know a guy who worked in one and you can learn that job in a few days. It's harder to maintain the required pace for long though.

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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by tfryman on Friday February 03, 2017 @01:00PM (#13561730)

I worked at a warehouse during college on the weekends (3 12-hour shifts Fri-Sun) and on day one was assigned to the conveyor line where I used a broom to free stuck packages and then a while later got "promoted" to gift wrapping where I stayed until I left when I got my degree.

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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by FT_intern on Friday February 03, 2017 @12:53PM (#13561671)

The bulk of the new hires were most likely low skill, low income people working at their fulfillment centers

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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by eva1984 on Friday February 03, 2017 @01:11PM (#13561837)

Majority of them are in delivery.

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