If you were thinking of moving west and living in Hamilton – right now might be a good time to move there. Amazon has announced that they will be hiring 2,500 employees in Hamilton as well as Ajax areas.
Amazon mentioned that they would like to have people hired in 2021. Amazon is currently employing over 21,000 of people in Canada.
We’ve had great success with the talented workforce in Ontario, and we look forward to creating an additional 2,500 full-time jobs with competitive pay and benefits starting on day one.
Sumegha Kumar
Amazon Canada’s customer fulfilment operations directorThese fulfillment centers will have about 1,500 people working in Hamilton while 1,000 will work in Ajax. Fulfillment centers are big warehouses where Amazon holds most of the products and ships them out to customers, sometimes the same day you place an order.
Right now, Amazon has 10 fulfillment centers in Ontario and 6 in the rest of Canada.
Amazon continues to hire people around the world, topping 1 million employees, and is now only second to Walmart for number of people hired.