Joseph Pisani
Where’s My Amazon Package? It May Be Late
Lynne Sladky/AP
NEW YORK — It’s just a week into the holiday shopping season, and Amazon already is having trouble getting packages to shoppers’ doorsteps on time.
December 6, 2019Amazon Looks to Hire 30,000
Mark Lennihan/Bloomberg News
Amazon is going on a hiring spree. The online shopping giant is holding job fairs across the country next week, aiming to hire more than 30,000 people by early next year, a 5% bump in its total workforce.
September 10, 2019Scout, Amazon’s Self-Driving Delivery Robot, Heads to California
Amazon via AP
Amazon said Aug. 6 that its six-wheeled self-driving robots, about the size of a smaller cooler, will begin delivering packages to customers in Irvine, Calif., after testing them in a suburb of Seattle earlier this year.
August 6, 2019Amazon Says It Will Back Its Employees Who Quit Jobs to Start Delivery Businesses
The endless line of Amazon packages getting sorted and moved along a conveyor belt. (Patrick Semansky/Associated Press)
NEW YORK — Amazon, which is racing to deliver packages faster, is turning to its own employees with a proposition: Quit your job, and we’ll help you start a business delivering Amazon packages.
May 14, 2019