Amazon is Aiming to Add 40,000 Workers to Its Workforce in the U.S.

E-commerce giant Amazon revealed this week that it has plans to add more than 40,000 people to its corporate ranks in the United States.

The company is referring to this as the biggest-ever recruiting and training event.

The world’s largest online retailer and cloud-computing company is planning to hold a career fair on September 15th, but did not specify where it would take place.

According to Amazon’s job posting site, Seattle, Virginia, Arlington, New York, Bellevue, Washington, and California had the most open roles.

At the end of June the company had employed 950,000 people in the U.S. out of 1.3 million employees worldwide.

Many of the company’s workers work in the logistics division.

Amazon has also said recently that it aims to take a more proactive approach to determine what types of content violate its cloud service policies, such as rules against promoting violence, and enforce its removal. This is according to a Reuters report citing two sources.

Amazon made headlines in the Washington Post last month for shutting down a website hosted on AWS that featured propaganda from Islamic State that celebrated the suicide bombing that killed an estimated 170 Afghans and 13 U.S. troops in Kabul.

“AWS Trust & Safety works to protect AWS customers, partners, and internet users from bad actors attempting to use our services for abusive or illegal purposes,” an AWS spokesperson said.

“When AWS Trust & Safety is made aware of abusive or illegal behavior, they act quickly to investigate and engage with customers to take appropriate actions. As AWS continues to expand, this team (like most teams in AWS) will continue to grow.”

Amazon is also currently hiring for a global head of policy on the AWS trust and safety team, which is responsible for “protecting AWS against a wide variety of abuse,” according to a job posting on its website.

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