Amazon bets heavily on the future of the office

Amazon bets heavily on the future of the office

As Twitter and Slack have said they will allow their employees to work from home all the time, Amazon is taking a different approach by announcing that it will expand its US tech centers to Dallas, Detroit, Denver, New York, Phoenix and San Francisco. Diego. The e-commerce giant plans to create 3500 new business and technology jobs in the United States and will invest €1.4 billion in its new offices that will house business support teams across the company. . Amazon's senior vice president of human resources, Beth Galetti, explained in a press release how the expansion will help these US cities develop their tech workforce, saying: “People from all walks of life come to Amazon to build their careers, from recent graduates looking for a place to turn their ideas into high-impact products, to veterans accessing new cloud computing jobs through our programs. development. These 3500 new jobs will be located in cities across the country with strong and diverse talent pools. We look forward to helping these communities develop their emerging tech workforce. "

American tech hub expansion

Amazon teams in Dallas, Detroit, Denver, New York, Phoenix, and San Diego will support various Amazon businesses, including AWS, Alexa, Amazon Advertising, Amazon Fashion, OpsTech, and Amazon Fresh, among others. The e-commerce giant plans to hire new employees for a variety of roles, from cloud infrastructure architects and software engineers to data scientists, product managers and user experience designers. When it comes to expanding its office space, Amazon will add more than 100,000 square feet to its Dallas Technology Center, 25,000 square feet in Detroit, 20,000 square feet in Denver, 90,000 square feet in Phoenix, 40,000 square feet in San Diego, and the company. it also plans to open a new 630,000-square-foot office in Manhattan. As other companies prepare to face the 'new normal' indefinitely through remote work, Amazon is taking advantage of the pandemic to expand its office space and hire additional workers at a time when demand for its cloud computing services and e-commerce products has never been higher.