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Amazon Will Hire 1,400 in MA as Pandemic Spikes Demand
Amazon said it will hire 1,400 people in Massachusetts as part of its plan to add 100,000 jobs across the country to deal with a spike in demand driven by the coronavirus.
MassLive.com reported that the hiring encompasses the new Holyoke distribution center that opened last November, although it’s not clear how many positions will be filled in Holyoke compared to Amazon’s other Massachusetts facilities in Everett, Fall River and Stoughton.
Amazon’s announcement comes as COVID-19 related layoffs are beginning to surge in Massachusetts. The commonwealth’s Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development said it received nearly 20,000 unemployment claims this past Monday alone. Driven by layoffs in the travel and hospitality sectors, that’s more than the office received during the entire month of February.
For the week ending March 14, Massachusetts had 7,408 new unemployment claims, up from 4,712 new claims in the same week of last year.
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