The Strategic Organizing Center, a coalition of labor unions that has accused Amazon of prioritizing profits over worker well-being, conducted its own survey of 1,000 corporate workers in November. Nearly half said they had already applied to new jobs because of the return-to-office ma...
Amazon got its start in a Bellevue garage in 1994, and it first grew without much of a plan — its employees were scattered in various downtown Seattle buildings and in the former Pacific Medical Center building on Beacon Hill. When Schoettler, the Amazon real-estate executive, joined ...
Most of the retailer’s corporate functions then were handled from its growing Seattle headquarters, which today is home to more than45,000 employees. The concentrated approach was, in part, a side effect of Amazon’s effort to avoid charging sales tax and maint...
As of June, Amazon had 45,000 workers in Seattle and 17,500 at its North American tech hubs, a number the company says will rise to more than 26,000 within the next three to five years. Those are what it calls corporate workers, separate from the tens of thousands of lower-paid staf...
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By then, new or expanded corporate campuses owned by Google, Facebook and Expedia will be anchored near Amazon home in the South Lake Union neighborhood. “If they want to hire another 50,000 people, and the alternative is putting them in South Lake Union?” said David Sirmon, who...
Even its larger corporate campus that stretches down the surrounding blocks may be too small for the space Amazon would want for a second headquarters. In Seattle, its rise has not been without critics, who say the influx of mostly well-heeled tech workers has caused housing prices to ...
Still, the pullback is a reminder that Amazon’s frantic expansion during the last few years — contributing to a boom that nudged the city’s unemployment rate near record lows, pushed housing costs to a record high, and sparked ...
Amazon continues to walk the walk when it comes to corporate clean energy leadership,” said Gregory Wetstone, president and CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). “The renewable projects the company announced today will provide communities with good-paying jobs and the affordabl...
Seattle-based retail giant Amazon has delayed its return to the office for US corporate employees to January 3, 2022. SEATTLE - Starting Monday, Amazon will be requiring all of its 900,000 U.S. warehouse workers to wear masks indoors, regardless of their vaccination status. The move follows...