Amazon stops global corporate hiring in retail business: Report

Amazon's hiring freeze is for the remainder of 2022. Any candidates that had interviews scheduled before October 15th are still eligible to receive offers but would have their start dates pushed back to 2023. There were around 20,000 openings listed in the division that Amazon was looking to fill before the freeze went into effect.
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Amazon stops global corporate hiring in retail business: Report

New Delhi: Days after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced plans to freeze hiring and restructure some groups within the company, e-commerce major Amazon is also reportedly restricting corporate hiring in its retail business for the remainder of 2022.
The company said that they stopping global hiring for all corporate roles, including technology positions, in its stores business, which covers Amazon’s physical and online retail business and its logistics operations, according to an internal announcement obtained by The New York Times.
Amazon’s mail to the recruiters added that the hiring freeze will have no impact on the company’s more profitable cloud computing division. Some roles, such as student hiring and field positions, were exempt from the pause, the email added.
“Amazon continues to have a significant number of open roles available across the company,” Brad Glasser, an Amazon spokesperson, said in a statement. Some parts of the business were more mature than others, “and we expect to keep adjusting our hiring strategies in each of these businesses at various junctures,” he noted further.
It is worth mentioning here that Amazon is America’s second-largest private employer after Walmart.
Any candidates that had interviews scheduled before October 15th are still eligible to receive offers but would have their start dates pushed back to 2023, the NYT reported adding that there were around 20,000 openings listed in the division that Amazon was looking to fill before the freeze went into effect.
New openings at Amazon would become available after the new year.
Amazon on September 30 said that is increasing wages for its US operations employees - a nearly $1 billion investment over the next year - in addition to investing in new skills training and wage access programs. Average hourly pay for employees in customer fulfillment and transportation will increase from $18 per hour to more than $19 per hour, with employees earning between $16 and $26 per hour depending on their position and location in the US.
Meta hiring freeze
CEO Zuckerberg recently warned Meta employees of potential layoffs after it announced a hiring freeze and “further restructure”. In company communication with employees, Zuckerberg cited the uncertain macroeconomic environment for the changes.
“I had hoped the economy would have more clearly stabilised by now, but from what we’re seeing it doesn’t yet seem like it has, so we want to plan somewhat conservatively. Our plan is to steadily reduce headcount growth over the next year," the CEO told employees during a weekly Q&A session.
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