Amazon CEO Andy Jassy unveils 55,000 tech jobs in first hiring push under his watch

Amazon is planning to hire 55,000 people for corporate and technology roles globally in the coming months, Chief Executive Andy Jassy told Reuters.

With Amazon's annual job fair scheduled to begin Sept. 15, Jassy hopes now is a good time for recruiting. “It’s part of what we think makes ‘Career Day' so timely and so useful,” he said. The new hires would represent a 20 percent increase in Amazon's tech and corporate staff, who currently number around 275,000 globally, the company said.

“Everybody at the company has the freedom — and really, the expectation — to critically look at how it can be better and then invent ways to make it better.” Amazon, which earlier touted an"office-centric culture," later dialed back its vision and offered workers the opportunity to spend just three days a week at its offices in person starting next year.

Of the more than 55,000 jobs Jassy announced, over 40,000 will be in the United States, while others will be in countries such as India, Germany and Japan.

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