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# Good Year For Seasonal Workers: Amazon Announces 80,000 Hires

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## Transcript

The holiday hiring boom just welcomed a heavy hitter to its ranks. Amazon has announced it'll bring on workers at a level that would make the e- commerce giant responsible for about one- tenth of the seasonal workforce. A press release says Amazon not only plans to create 80, 000 seasonal jobs ,. But it also turned 10, 000 part- time holiday workers into full- time employees with benefits last year, and it expects to do the same this year. That follows the general employment trend as we make our way closer to December. Researchers at Challenger, Gray and Christmas expect seasonal hiring to reach the largest numbers we've seen in 15 years, significantly outpacing last year's 786, 000- plus hires.

It's no coincidence why we're seeing some of these hires make headlines either. FedEx UPS and Amazon all caught heavy criticism in 2013 for late Christmas deliveries. UPS specifically reneged on its plan to scale back seasonal hires when business surged. But, by the time the parcel service got the workers it needed in place, the delivery delays were a foregone conclusion. Not surprisingly, UPS has also announced a seasonal hiring increase for this year. Interestingly, Target scaled back it's hiring last year to focus more on it's online operations, dropping seasonal workers by 20 percent and that apparently worked.

The big box retailer plans to do the same this year. Money cites a survey showing 49 % of people plan to order gifts earlier this year mostly because of last year's delays. Money's Brad Tuttle says that's a solid strategy. Hopefully the additional hires made by UPS and now Amazon will ease the shipping problems of a year ago. But it's smart for shoppers to play it safe by ordering well in advance.

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