By the holidays, Amazon.com half to increase staff

The largest online store of the planet, which employs 31.2 thousand permanent employees, announced his intention to hire more than 15,5 thousand people at the pre-holiday period. Temporary workers will be working in the delivery centers Amazon.com in the U.S., helping the retailer to cope with the surge in orders. Last year, plans to hire temporary staff to Amazon.com modestly in a press release online superstore declares its readiness to employ more than 5 thousand people in Arizona, about 4 thousand - in Pennsylvania, more than 2,5 thousand in Indiana More than 2 thousand - in Nevada and Kentucky. Also attending the recruitment of staff for temporary work at Amazon.com in Seattle, shortly before the representatives of Amazon.com reported finding several thousand temporary workers for the delivery centers in Kentucky and Las Vegas. In anticipation of the "high season", many U.S. retailers (Kohls, Toys R Us, Macys, Pier 1 Imports, American Eagle Outfitters and others) reported on plans to attract temporary employees. According to the outsourcing company Challenger, Gray and Christmas, in 2010 the U.S. will attract retailers to work on during the "holiday" sales growth of about 550-600 thousand people. That's more than last year (when it was hired about 501.5 thousand people), but still significantly lower than before the crisis (in 2007 the total number of workers who found work in the pre-holiday period, exceeding 720.8 thousand people) . Currently in the U.S. every ten gift for Christmas and New Year be bought online. The share of pre-holiday Internet sales increase each year - if in 2009 the growth amounted to 4% now, according to research firm comScore, the positive dynamics of pre-holiday online sales will amount to 7-9%.