Nikol Szymul has a reception desk in the Amazon offices discreetly tucked away in a building called Fiona in downtown Seattle, Washington, on May 11, 2017.
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Amazon plans to create 3,000 jobs and open a new office in Boston, the company announced Tuesday.
New hires, expected to focus on software development, artificial intelligence, machine learning, management, HR and finance, will support their Amazon Web Services, robotics, Alexa and Amazon Pharmacy teams. . Amazon hopes to add jobs over the next few years.
Amazon said it rented a 17-story office tower in Boston’s Seaport district to accommodate new hires. The 630,000-square-foot office, to be completed in 2024, will include workspaces, innovation labs and common mixed-use areas for employees, as well as two theaters and other spaces for the public.
The expansion is based on Amazon’s growing presence in Boston. In 2018, Amazon said it would create 2,000 jobs in Boston and announced it would lease a 17-story mixed-use building in the Seaport district. Construction of the tower is expected to be completed this year.
Amazon has been hiring at unprecedented levels during the pandemic, driven by rising e-commerce demand, as home buyers turned to online retailers for both essential and non-essential goods.
The company added more than 400,000 employees in 2020, boosting its global workforce to more than a million. Last year, Amazon announced it would add thousands of jobs to technology centers in major cities, including New York, Detroit and San Diego.