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    Amazon Is Offering To Keep 125,000 Workers It Hired For The Pandemic

    Amazon has hired 175,000 temporary workers to deal with a spike in online shopping during the coronavirus pandemic. Now it's offering most of them permanent jobs.
    by Avie Schneider May 28, 2020 1 minute
    A driver picks up a package while making deliveries for Amazon in Costa Mesa, Calif., on March 23. Amazon is offering to permanent jobs for 125,000 workers it hired to deal with a sharp rise in online shopping during the coronavirus pandemic.

    Tens of millions of people are out of work because of the coronavirus pandemic, but Amazon says it's willing to keep 125,000 people it hired

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