Amazon, another 500 hires in Italy by the end of 2021

Amazon announces another 500 hires in Italy by the end of 2021. The creation of new jobs is part of the path that has already led the e-commerce giant to increase investments in Italy by more than 50%, from 1, 8 billion euros in 2019 to 2.9 billion in 2020. An acceleration of the ‘Italy Plan’ which “confirms Amazon’s role as a growth engine for the national economy through innovation, investments and job creation”. Precisely on this last point, a new study by The European House – Ambrosetti, which analyzed the financial statements of large private companies in Italy, notes that Amazon is the company that has created more jobs in Italy in the last 10 years (period 2011 -2020). A trend that accelerated in 2021. In September, in fact, Amazon already reached its 2021 target, creating 3,000 new permanent jobs with a permanent workforce in Italy that now has more than 12,500 employees. Not only that, Amazon announces its willingness to make another 500 hires by the end of the year. The employment acceleration means that since its launch 11 years ago, Amazon has created on average more than 20 permanent jobs per week in our country. Since 2010, Amazon has made direct investments in operations in Italy for over € 8.7 billion. This includes both capital expenditures (such as Amazon-built infrastructure, distribution centers, corporate offices, and data centers), as well as operating expenses (such as employee compensation). In 2020 alone, the company invested over 2.9 billion euros in the country in light of the demand stimulated by the coronavirus emergency. Amazon’s current network in Italy includes more than 50 different sites. Only in 2021 did the distribution centers in Novara and Cividate al Piano (BG), and the sorting center in Spilamberto (MO) come into operation for a total investment of 350 million euros. Amazon also announced the opening of its first distribution center in Abruzzo where 1,000 new permanent jobs will be created within three years of starting operations. In recent years, Amazon has also opened dozens of sorting depots across the Peninsula. To serve Amazon Prime Now and Fresh customers, the company has four urban distribution centers in Milan, Rome, Turin and Bologna.Amazon is also investing to expand its corporate offices in Milan, customer service in Cagliari and the center of development of Turin, where linguists and machine learning experts help Alexa improve understanding of the Italian language, day after day. In addition, Amazon Web Services opened the AWS Region (Milan) on April 28, 2020 to support the recovery and growth of Italian companies and the digital transformation of the Italian economy, enabling start-ups, SMEs, large enterprises or government agencies to manage workloads, archive data in Italy and support end customers more efficiently.