With e-commerce ramping up and the holidays fast approaching, Amazon is looking to hire 4,900 logistics workers in the Inland Empire.
The recruiting drive comes on top of the 1,000 employees who were recently hired to work at the company’s new 640,000-square-foot fulfillment center in Beaumont. Amazon currently employs more than 91,000 people throughout California.
The e-commerce giant is looking to add 100,000 employees in the U.S. and Canada to keep pace with growing demand as consumers increasingly turn to online buying amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The customer demand is there, and we’re seeing it increase leading into the holidays,” Amazon spokeswoman Deborah Bass said. “We’re building out our fulfillment network to meet that demand.”
Local job openings involve packing customer orders, shipping and logistics. Positions are currently available in such communities as Perris, Rialto, Fontana, Riverside, Beaumont and San Bernardino.
Amazon opened 75 new fulfillment, sorting and delivery facilities in the U.S. this year, Bass said, and hundreds of additional locations will be opening by year’s end. She didn’t reveal where any additional Southern California locations will be.
Amazon already has a massive presence in the Inland Empire, with nine fulfillment centers, three cross-dock locations, two sorting centers and one Amazon Air facility. Collectively, those facilities employ more than 20,000 workers.
Logistics Management reported in June that companies were leveraging a fresh crop of entry-level and experienced workers that were available and ready to work — a task that would have been difficult earlier in the year when the national unemployment rate was just 3.5%.
Tisha Danehl, a strategy and recruitment professional with The Adecco Group in Chicago, said companies are focusing on their most critical labor needs and centering on positions that were difficult to fill pre-COVID.
“The flood gates aren’t opening yet, but some firms are exploring their options on the permanent hire/direct hire side of the market versus temporary employment,” she said in an interview with Logistics Management.
Online sales up 30.1%
Figures from Digital Commerce show consumers spent $347.3 billion online with U.S. retailers during the first six months of 2020, a 30.1% increase over the same period a year earlier. Online sales during the first half of 2019 grew by just 12.7% year over year.
Digital Commerce linked the increase primarily to store closures and stay-at-home orders that were put in place during the second quarter as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. That prompted a growing number of shoppers to buy their merchandise online.
During that three-month period, online buying among U.S. retailers rose 44% year over year to $200.72 billion.
Information on Amazon job openings in the Inland Empire can be found at amazon.com/apply. Wages for all workers start at a minimum of $15 an hour and employees receive full medical, vision and dental insurance as well as a 401(k) plan with a 50% match.
Some positions include sign-on bonuses of up to $1,000, depending on the needs of the location and the job that needs to be filled.
“We anticipate this holiday season will be one of the bigger ones for us — if not the biggest,” Bass said.
A new shopping day
Retail consultant Deborah Weinswig, CEO and founder of Coresight Research, has partnered with Shopkick Inc. to create a 10.10 shopping day for consumers. The idea is to launch the holiday shopping season earlier so retailers can better cope with shipping capacity and available merchandise while also managing consumer concerns for safe in-store shopping in a Covid-19 environment.
Silicon Valley-based Shopkick created a shopping app for smartphones and tablets that offers users rewards for shopping activities both online and in stores, such as walking into stores, scanning items, making in-app or in-store purchases and submitting receipts.
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