Amazon is capping off a big week in India with an eye-catching pledge to help create a million new jobs in the country. The company says it expects the jobs to be added over the next five years through ongoing investments in its operations on the ground.
Hong Kong Amazon is capping off a big week in India with an eye-catching pledge to help create a million new jobs in the country.
The company said Friday that it expects the jobs to be added over the next five years through ongoing investments in its operations on the ground.These openings will be"created both directly and indirectly ... and are in addition to the 700,000 jobs Amazon's investments have enabled over the last six years in India," it said in a statement.
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