Verkkoseattle — amazon has embarked on an extraordinary hiring binge this year, vacuuming up an average of 1,400 new workers a day and. Verkkoafter growing its workforce to more than 1. 3 million people in 2020, amazon is planning to hire another 55,000 employees globally in the coming. Verkkoamazon is going on a hiring spree with plans to fill more than 185,000 new positions globally. Verkkoamazon recruited 15,000 more british workers than it expected to last year as demand for home deliveries and digital services boomed during the. Verkkoamazon’s move, only the latest hiring spree on which it has embarked, follows a period of heightened scrutiny of its labor practices and.