<story><title>Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K people in a single year</title><url>http://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-soars-340k-employees-adding-110k-people-single-year/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not simply an e-commerce giant, it&amp;#x27;s a logistics giant.&lt;p&gt;Hundreds of warehouses, hundreds of delivery stations, thousands of shipping containers, dozens of planes (plus an airport soon), a container ship is rumoured. That 341k number probably doesn&amp;#x27;t even count the independent contractors (both through Flex and through Amazon Logistics) handling deliveries.&lt;p&gt;The tens of thousands of software developers are there to (among other things) optimize the efficiency of those workers, make them achieve more with less effort via technology.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>petra</author><text>My contrarian opinion: Walmart is going to create some hard times for Amazon.&lt;p&gt;Walmart ackuired jet.com just 4 months ago. Jet.com, a startup, has managed to create a logistics network being able to do 1-day delivery to 50% of the population(or at least they claimed so), reached $1B in sales rapidly. Walmart has recently started to offer free 2-day delivery($35 minimum), which means that now, even for Prime memebers. shopping comparison is a reasonable option.&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, Walmart has curbside pickup for groceries, a very convinient service to get your groceries on the way from work, is seeing a lot of sucsess according to Walmart, with availibility in 500 stores, and planning to be in 600 more soon.&lt;p&gt;And Walmart definetly has got a huge logistics chain, maybe less in areas where Amazon is strong at, but they&amp;#x27;re probably better at the china&amp;#x2F;usa logistics part, that&amp;#x27;s why Amazon is doing some of those moves.&lt;p&gt;And Walmart does have enough capital to compete.&lt;p&gt;And once this impacts Amazon, will Amazon be able to keep it&amp;#x27;s very high stock price ? and how will this affect talent  and growth ?&lt;p&gt;In short: finally , we&amp;#x27;re in for some very interesting times.</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K people in a single year</title><url>http://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-soars-340k-employees-adding-110k-people-single-year/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not simply an e-commerce giant, it&amp;#x27;s a logistics giant.&lt;p&gt;Hundreds of warehouses, hundreds of delivery stations, thousands of shipping containers, dozens of planes (plus an airport soon), a container ship is rumoured. That 341k number probably doesn&amp;#x27;t even count the independent contractors (both through Flex and through Amazon Logistics) handling deliveries.&lt;p&gt;The tens of thousands of software developers are there to (among other things) optimize the efficiency of those workers, make them achieve more with less effort via technology.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ljk</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;make them achieve more with less effort via technology&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;and one day replace everything with robots</text></comment>