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Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by mgraupner on Saturday November 28, 2020 @10:01AM (#25237909)
I guess this is added global workforce, not US.
Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by howlgarnish on Saturday November 28, 2020 @10:28AM (#25238097)
I'd imagine the vast majority of that was in the US, since while Amazon operates in many countries, in most it's only a pale shadow of the US juggernaut. For example, in Singapore it's nearly useless for anything except books, and even there local inventory is pretty sad.
Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by mgraupner on Saturday November 28, 2020 @10:36AM (#25238150)
Don't underestimate Europe, we have a population of about 500 Million people and Amazon is big here too.
Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by wasmitnetzen on Saturday November 28, 2020 @11:52AM (#25238650)
Nowhere near as big as in the US though, and it's only active in the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, and Italy[1]. They have a total of 341 million people. In 2019, Amazon employed 600 000 people in the US, and only 115 000 in Europe[2].

[1]: The Swedish site did just open, but it's rubbish. [2]: https://ir.aboutamazon.com/files/doc_financials/2020/ar/2019...

Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by cs2733 on Saturday November 28, 2020 @03:24PM (#25240219)
For what it's worth, I'm in Portugal and have ordered from several amazon sites. Mostly it's from the Spanish one which gives free shipping on orders of 29€.
Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by ma2rten on Saturday November 28, 2020 @11:57AM (#25238683)
Amazon is only in 7 countries in Europe. However, Amazon is in China and India. Both countries have a larger population than the US and EU combined.
Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by petra on Saturday November 28, 2020 @12:21PM (#25238848)
Why are they in only 7 countries ?

Is it because they won't likely to sucseed ? Or is it just a matter of time until they expand to more countries ?

Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by mrweasel on Saturday November 28, 2020 @04:20PM (#25240650)
Because why setup a warehouse in Denmark when workers are half the price in Germany and shipping from Germany to Denmark is only marginally more expensive? I suspect the same is true for other countries like The Netherlands and Belgium.
Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by johnwalkr on Saturday November 28, 2020 @12:46PM (#25239031)
They ship throughout Europe from those 7 countries but serve most, if not all, of Europe.