{"id":1044682,"date":"2026-10-21T10:48:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T05:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1044682"},"modified":"2026-10-21T10:48:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T05:18:26","slug":"amazon-plans-to-recruit-over-300000-workers-for-holiday-season-up-20-from-2025-check-wages-for-seasonal-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/21\/amazon-plans-to-recruit-over-300000-workers-for-holiday-season-up-20-from-2025-check-wages-for-seasonal-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon plans to recruit over 300,000 workers for holiday season, up 20% from 2025; check wages for seasonal workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon plans to recruit over 300,000 people for the upcoming holiday shopping season, a 20% increase from its hiring last year. The expansion makes the e-commerce giant an exception in a relatively subdued seasonal employment market, according to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>The hiring drive covers permanent, part-time and seasonal positions. Temporary employees will receive an average hourly wage of $20, the Seattle-headquartered company said in a blog post on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon plans to recruit over 300,000 people for the upcoming holiday shopping season, a 20% increase from its hiring last year. The expansion makes the e-commerce giant an exception in a relatively subdued seasonal employment market, according to Bloomberg. The hiring drive covers permanent, part-time and seasonal positions. Temporary employees will receive an average hourly wage of $20, the Seattle-headquartered company said in a blog post on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044683,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044682\/revisions\/1044683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}