Amazon continues hiring spree to meet demand from pandemic

Earlier this year, Amazon hired about 175,000 additional workers as stay-at-home orders sent shoppers online. Now the e-commerce giant is seeking to hire 100,000 more warehouse workers in the United States and Canada, and more than 30,000 corporate tech workers. Those highly paid positions will be remote for now, with several thousand of them spread across the country near planned satellite offices in cities from San Diego to Phoenix, Dallas, Detroit and New York. The hiring plan strikes a contrast to the search for one big second headquarters, called HQ2, several years ago. With the pandemic sending most tech workers home, Amazon and other large tech companies may finally be shifting their working model, said Steven Pedigo, a professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.