Amazon: 1,600 new jobs in Italy this year

Amazon announces the creation of 1,600 jobs in Italy this year. The e-commerce giant specifies that these will be permanent contacts. An acceleration compared to what was done the previous year (1,400 new places). The company founded by Jeff Bezos thus decided, in the year marked by the pandemic, to continue its development programs in the Peninsula. Amazon's workforce in Italy will rise, reads the company's note, "to a total of 8,500 employees, compared to 6,900 at the end of 2019, in more than 25 locations throughout Italy".

The hiring will strengthen the staff in the various Amazon points in the country, from Castel San Giovanni, in the province of Piacenza, the first logistics center opened in Italy in 2011, to Passo Corese, in the province of Rieti, passing through Vercelli. Last year the company inaugurated a fourth distribution center, in the province of Turin, in Torrazza Piemonte. And for 2020, it is recalled, "an investment of more than 140 million euros has already been planned for the construction of the fifth and sixth distribution centers.

They will be opened in Castelguglielmo / San Bellino (Veneto) and Colleferro (Lazio) "at the end of the year. The new job opportunities touch the other Italian realities of Amazon, which also include the Asti and Turin development centers dedicated also to artificial intelligence .

As for 2019, investments made in Italy in 2019 rose, it is said, "to 1.8 billion euros". And "as an indirect effect of these investments, more than 120,000 jobs have been created".

In 2019, Amazon says, "our total tax contribution was € 234 million. It is divided into two parts: the taxes directly incurred by Amazon are € 84 million. The taxes paid as an employer constitute one an important part; the indirect taxes that we collected for an additional 150 million euros as a result of our activities in Italy ". These are the accounts when the tenth birthday of amazon.it is just around the corner. The platform debuted on November 23, 2010.