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Tried hard not to break the @NYTimes style guide & use words like "historic" and "unprecedented" in this piece on Amazon's hiring binge.
— Karen Weise (@KYWeise) November 27, 2020
Historians and labor economists say the closest equivalent the hiring of entire industries carried out in wartime 1/ https://t.co/Q60VmI0rZv
Meanwhile, from @KYWeise: "Amazon added 427,300 employees between January and October, pushing its work force to more than 1.2 million globally, up more than 50 percent from a year ago. Its number of workers now approaches the entire population of Dallas." https://t.co/UFO9ErAVSu
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) November 27, 2020
I could keep tweeting little bits, but instead, please read how Amazon's workforce is now almost the size of Dallas. 7/7 https://t.co/Q60VmI0rZv
— Karen Weise (@KYWeise) November 27, 2020
“Starting in July, Amazon brought on about 350,000 employees, or 2,800 a day...
— Austen (@Austen) November 27, 2020
not including the 100,000 temporary workers or roughly 500,000 delivery drivers.”
Amazon is operating at scale that will break our brains.https://t.co/8p3BWu9jYx
Amazon expanded its workforce by more than 400,000 in 10 months. It is mind boggling. @KYWeise has many big, bonkers numbers and perspective:
— Shira Ovide (@ShiraOvide) November 27, 2020
"The closest comparisons are the hiring that entire industries carried out in wartime." https://t.co/KcKWqYfQLm
Amazon's hiring binge is unrivaled in the history of corporate America:
— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) November 27, 2020
• 427,300 people hired around the world this year.
• 1,400 new hires per day.
• A total workforce of 1.2 million people.
• One week, 384,000 people applied for jobs.
By @KYWeisehttps://t.co/DLuwxZ2GY2
"Such rapid growth is unrivaled in the history of corporate America... The closest comparisons are the hiring that entire industries carried out in wartime, such as shipbuilding during the early years of World War II" ?https://t.co/GjhjOrqIuv
— Caleb Watney (@calebwatney) November 27, 2020
Amazon has hired 427,300 (!) employees in the past 10 months.@DigEconLabhttps://t.co/NLq30ek6Bt pic.twitter.com/g3UJP7zu2L
— Erik Brynjolfsson (@erikbryn) November 28, 2020
Government-imposed closure of most of your competitors + 10-year rise in online shopping —> #Amazon has been hiring 2,800 a day. This scale of hiring has only been seen during wartime.
— Scott Galloway (@profgalloway) November 28, 2020
by @KYWeise https://t.co/oIBLzGIPVy
for the past few months, Amazon has been hiring at a rate of 2,800 people a day https://t.co/kN1lMQ7uOt
— Alex Press (@alexnpress) November 27, 2020
"Amazon added 427,300 employees between January and October, pushing its work force to more than 1.2 million people globally, up more than 50 percent from a year ago. Its number of workers now approaches the entire population of Dallas." https://t.co/MRHbJhjqBH
— Tren Griffin (@trengriffin) November 28, 2020