Amazon wants its employees to quit their jobs and create their own delivery businesses, so the company announced it will now give workers up to $10,000 of the start-up money they will need, along with three months of their existing Amazon pay
In June 2018, Amazon announced US employees could apply to start their own small businesses, delivering Prime packages in Amazon-branded vans and uniforms.The company hoped it could fill its huge need for people to bring packages from local Amazon sorting centers to the customers who ordered them.
Read More"We received overwhelming interest from tens of thousands of individuals who applied to be part of the Delivery Service Partner program, including many employees," said Dave Clark, Amazon's senior vice president of worldwide operations."We've heard from associates that they want to participate in the program but struggled with the transition.
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