Report: Amazon Hiring 100,000 Temporary Workers to Cope With Coronavirus-Related E-Commerce Surge

In an attempt to cope with the increased volume of online commerce in the wake of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic, Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) plans to hire an additional 100,000 workers. Those new employees will be utilized for the company's considerable warehouse and delivery operations.

A report in The Wall Street Journal quoted a memo the newspaper obtained, in which Amazon's senior vice president of operations Dave Clark wrote that "[w]e are seeing a significant increase in demand, which means our labor needs are unprecedented for this time of year."

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