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Amazon announces Hagerstown fulfillment center, creating new jobs  https://www.localdvm.com/news/maryland/amazon-announces-hagerstown-fulfillment-center-creating-new-jobs/ HAGERSTOWN, Md. (WDVM) — A new Amazon fulfillment center is coming to Hagerstown, bringing hundreds of new, full-time jobs with it, according to an announcement from Hagerstown Mayor Bob Bruchey and Amazon. The e-commerce giant says it already operates six fulfillment and sorting centers across the state of Maryland. Amazon boasts a $15 minimum wage for employees. In a statement Tuesday morning, Amazon said the Hagerstown center will bring “500 new, full-time jobs with industry-leading pay and benefits starting of day one of employment.” A statement from Amazon says aside from jobs on the fulfillment center floor, “Amazon will hire for roles in human resources, operations management, safety, security, finance and information technology.” “Maryland is great for business, and Amazon is excited to continue its growth an

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  WAPO review of Amazon Unbound In the autumn of 2014, talk show host Charlie Rose   interviewed Steve Ballmer , former head of the Seattle-based software giant Microsoft. When Rose asked his view of another prominent Seattle company, Ballmer minced no words. “In my world,” he said, “you’re not a real business until you make some money.” The target of Ballmer’s jibe, Amazon.com, was indeed an enigma. Although it had long since become a household name, Amazon was notorious for its chronic inability to turn revenue into profit. As Ballmer spoke, it was in the midst of a money-losing year and its stock price was sagging. But over the next six years, the company’s stock market value would mushroom from $141 billion to $1.6 trillion, turning Amazon into the fourth-largest corporation on the planet. How this occurred is the subject of Brad Stone’s fascinating and deeply researched new book, “ Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire .” Stone, a journalist with Bloomber

  How robots are transforming Amazon warehouse jobs — for better and worse Amazon is leading a robotics race that will have a seismic impact on the warehouse industry, which employs more than 1.1 million Americans today. By  Jason Del Rey @DelRey     Dec 11, 2019, 8:00am EST Share this story Share this on Facebook (opens in new window) Share this on Twitter (opens in new window) SHARE All sharing options When the tech industry has come up in the 2020 Democratic presidential debates, the most important discussion topic  hasn’t been about breaking up the tech giants ; it’s been about the automation of jobs and the massive impact this is expected to have on the US labor force. At the center of this debate is Amazon, a company that employees hundreds of thousands of employees in its massive warehouse network, which is also a company whose investment in robots and other automation technologies means it could one day be a huge job eliminator, too. In 2012, Amazon spent $775 million to purcha