It is as if – in Italy – a city works entirely for Amazon: today in our country the US giant has more than 14,000 permanent employees. And keep hiring.
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by Pier Luigi Pisa
In 2021 alone, Amazon created 4,500 new permanent jobs at its 50 sites in Italy. Not only that: according to a study by The European House – Ambrosetti, Amazon is the private company that has created more jobs in Italy in the last 10 years.
“We provide work – they explain to Amazon – to people of any origin and age: more than 100 nationalities are represented in our Italian offices and the average age of Amazon employees in Italy is 34 years. It also offers job opportunities to people in older age. All Amazon employees receive a competitive salary from day one: the starting salary is 1,680 euros per month, 8% more than the standard salary set by the National Contract for the transport and logistics sector ” .
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It is no coincidence that Amazon was certified for the second consecutive year as Top Employer Italia and ranked fourth in the Forbes World‘s Best Employers list. In short, the company has more than doubled the number of its employees in Italy since the end of 2019, when it employed 6,900 people, without reducing the quality of the jobs.
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Amazon has in fact invested heavily to support its growth in Italy and to support the digitization of Italian SMEs: over 8.7 billion euros from 2010 to 2020. Furthermore, if we take into account the overall investments in Italy and the contribution to GDP , Amazon has supported the Italian economy for a total of over € 17 billion since 2010.