Amazon.com Inc. is planning to hire 2,800 seasonal employees for operations across D.C., Arlington and Alexandria, in anticipation of increased holiday demand and the need to process and deliver customer orders through the e-commerce platform.
It’s part of the company’s next wave of hiring across the United States ahead of the upcoming holiday season. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) plans to open 150,000 seasonal jobs in all, in full- and part-time roles at the company’s fulfillment centers, sortation centers, regional air hubs and delivery stations.
The company plans to hire more than 9,000 seasonal employees for operations across D.C., Maryland and Virginia, including 3,700 new roles in Virginia and 2,600 new jobs in Maryland, most of which are based in Baltimore, Amazon announced Monday.
Ofori Agboka, Amazon’s Seattle-based vice president of people experience and technology for the global operations team, said the company is ramping up hiring in Greater Washington because of a projected…
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