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Amazon announced Tuesday that it has hired 1,000 workers in its Office in Nashville, Tennessee.
The milestone means That Amazon is “forward” in its efforts to create 5,000 jobs in the region, Dave Clark, Amazon’s senior vice president of retail operations, said in a statement. Amazon has provided a calendar for the time it plans to cover the 5,000 promised jobs in Nashville.
Amazon’s Nashville office, just north of the city’s The Gulch, serves as an East Coast operations center, overseeing the generation and control purposes of its retail operations. The company chose Nashville as its new logistics center about two years ago when it chose Northern Virginia as the site of its headquarters, known as HQ2.
As a component of its national HQ2 research, Amazon had planned to divide its current headquarters between Arlington, Virginia, and the Long Island City community in New York, Queens. He later withdrew his proposal in New York due to the refusal of local activists and city council leaders.
Amazon said it hired locally and attracted out-of-town painters to paintings in its Nashville office, known as the Center for Excellence in Operations. “Our groups here are already inventing new tactics to use generation to help keep our painters safe and continue to serve our consumers in this pandemic,” Clark said in the statement.
Amazon also promoted task creation in the state of Tennessee, saying it had created 12,700 “indirect tasks” in various industries, adding construction, logistics and professional services, among others. The company operates at least 4 distribution centers in Tennessee and has other warehouse positions planned in the state, according to MWPVL International, a logistics and source chain consulting firm. Amazon distribution centers generally employ thousands of people, the number varies from position to position.
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