Amazon adding 55,000 employees globally in first hiring push under CEO Andy Jassy

After growing its workforce to more than 1.3 million people in 2020, Amazon is planning to hire another 55,000 employees globally in the coming months, the company announced Wednesday.

This is the first major hiring push since new Chief Executive Andy Jassy took the reins from Jeff Bezos in July. It comes ahead of the company's annual Career Day, which is slated for September 15. Most of the new jobs will be in corporate and technology roles, which Jassy told Reuters are needed to help the company keep pace with demand in retail, advertising and cloud computing — business units that all got a boost during the Covid-19 pandemic. Amazon's effort to launch a constellation of miniature satellites into space to provide high-speed broadband access, dubbed Project Kuiper, is also staffing up, he said.