Amazon to add 800 jobs in Austin
"Adding to its already significant Austin presence, retail giant Amazon.com will add 800 tech-focused jobs at its hub in North Austin, company representatives told the American-Statesman.
New employees will fill a 145,000-square-foot space Amazon has leased on four floors at Domain 10, a 15-story tower being built at the Domain, the North Austin business, shopping and restaurant development. Amazon’s new office will open next year, with hiring expected to take place over “the next several years,” the company said.
Seattle-based Amazon already employs more than 6,600 workers in the Austin area, including more than 1,000 corporate-level staff members, as well as more than 3,000 at a warehouses in San Marcos and an additional 2,600 through its ownership of Austin-based Whole Foods Market."
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Amazon’s Austin’s growth is part of an effort set in motion years ago and not related to the company’s recent pullout of a planned headquarters site in New York, Leeper said. Amazon in November selected New York and Northern Virginia for major headquarters hubs before deciding in February to cancel its New York project amid political and public backlash.
Amazon said then that the 25,000 jobs it had planned for New York would be spread out throughout its 17 corporate locations in the U.S. and Canada, including Austin. Whether that means additional hiring beyond the Domain 10 plan in Austin is not yet clear,
but the current Austin expansion is not tied to the New York withdrawal, Leeper said."
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"Regardless of the second headquarters competition, Leeper said, Amazon always planned to grow its Austin site. The company opened its first corporate office here in 2015 and has steadily grown its presence. Its new location will be an extension of those plans, Leeper said. Amazon signed a lease for Domain 10 late last year."
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