Amazon suspends recruitment for more than 10,000 positions worldwide!

Recently, foreign media reported that due to economic problems, Amazon will stop global recruitment for all corporate positions in its store business, including online and physical stores, third-party seller marketplaces, and subscription service Amazon Prime. All open job applications will be closed in the next few days, and the number of frozen job vacancies will reach more than 10,000.

The freeze will last until the end of the year, according to a person familiar with the matter.

So candidates who schedule interviews before October 15th can still receive an offer, but they won't start working at Amazon until next year.

However, an Amazon spokesperson said, "Amazon still has a large number of job openings with many different businesses at different stages of development, and we expect to continually adjust our hiring strategies within each of our businesses at different junctures." Amazon's listings show that it is still hiring warehouse workers, which Amazon often needs due to high turnover rates.

But overall, in order to cope with the economic losses caused by the slowdown in sales, Amazon has slowed down its once rapid warehouse expansion this year, starting to close some warehouses, cancel leases and seal some new buildings. And from the first quarter to the second quarter of this year, Amazon's direct employees decreased by 99,000, mainly due to the large-scale reduction of hourly workers in warehouses and distribution centers.

In fact, it is not just Amazon. Many companies recruited too many employees in the early stage of the epidemic. After the epidemic was effectively controlled, online sales slowed down, and these companies began to lay off employees and freeze recruitment to reduce operating costs in a timely manner. For example, Walmart, the largest private employer in the United States, said it would hire fewer hourly workers during this year's holiday shopping season; FedEx, which competes with Amazon to deliver packages to customers, said last month that it was freezing recruitment, closing stores and parking aircraft due to lower-than-expected demand.

However, for retailers, the current economy is at a critical moment, as Black Friday and the Christmas peak season are approaching. Even if some job recruitments are frozen, these retail giants still need to add staff to cope with the arrival of the peak season.

According to foreign media reports, Amazon plans to hire 150,000 full-time, seasonal and part-time employees in its warehouses in the United States before the upcoming shopping holidays . These new employees are mainly responsible for packaging, picking, sorting and shipping orders. Walmart plans to hire 40,000 American workers during the holidays, and Amazon's other competitors UPS and Target said their holiday recruitment plans are consistent with the previous year.

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